Election Integrity Partnership
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Stanford Internet Observatory's Election Integrity Partnership seeks to control information by suppressing alleged "online mis- and disinformation" related to the 2020 American presidential election.
About
From the Election Integrity Partnership's website:[1]
- "The Election Integrity Partnership was founded in 2020 as a non-partisan coalition to empower the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, social media platforms, and others to defend our elections against those who seek to undermine them by exploiting weaknesses in the online information environment.
- Our work, led in 2022 by the Stanford Internet Observatory and the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, focuses on a narrow scope of topics that are demonstrably harmful to the democratic process: attempts to suppress voting, reduce participation, confuse voters, or delegitimize election results without evidence. We are interested in these dynamics both during the election cycle as well as after the election, when public perceptions of its legitimacy continue to be formed.
From the Election Integrity Partnership's report "The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election":[2]
- The Election Integrity Partnership was formed to enable real-time information exchange between election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, social media platforms, the media, and the research community.
- It aimed to identify and analyze online mis- and disinformation, and to communicate important findings across stakeholders. It represented a novel collaboration between four of the nation’s leading institutions focused on researching misand disinformation in the social media landscape:
- Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO)
- University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP)
- Graphika
- Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)
2020 Election 'Disinformation'
The Stanford Internet Observatory published a book through their Election Integrity Partnership titled "The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election" which claimed that misinformation led to distrust in the 2020 Presidential Election and called for "whole-of-society" approach, including actions that could be taken by the federal government, to combat so-called "mis- and disinformation".[3],[4]
- "On January 6, 2021, an armed mob stormed the US Capitol to prevent the certification of what they claimed was a “fraudulent election.” Many Americans were shocked, but they needn’t have been. The January 6 insurrection was the culmination of months of online mis- and disinformation directed toward eroding American faith in the 2020 election.
- US elections are decentralized: almost 10,000 state and local election offices are primarily responsible for the operation of elections. Dozens of federal agencies support this effort, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Defense. However, none of these federal agencies has a focus on, or authority regarding, election misinformation originating from domestic sources within the United States. This limited federal role reveals a critical gap for non-governmental entities to fill. Increasingly pervasive mis- and disinformation, both foreign and domestic, creates an urgent need for collaboration across government, civil society, media, and social media platforms.
- The Election Integrity Partnership, comprising organizations that specialize in understanding those information dynamics, aimed to create a model for whole-of-society collaboration and facilitate cooperation among partners dedicated to a free and fair election. With the narrow aim of defending the 2020 election against voting-related mis- and disinformation, it bridged the gap between government and civil society, helped to strengthen platform standards for combating election-related misinformation, and shared its findings with its stakeholders, media, and the American public. This report details our process and findings, and provides recommendations for future actions.
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References
- ↑ The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Accessed March 30, 2023)
- ↑ The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Accessed March 30, 2023)
- ↑ ABSTRACT: The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Accessed March 30, 2023)
- ↑ FINAL REPORT: The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Accessed March 30, 2023)