As election votes are being counted, CIP researchers Kolina Koltai, Rachel Moran and Andrew Beers are hard at work examining the spread of misinformation online. Protocol, a tech-focused publication from Politico, featured the work of Koltai, Beers, Moran and other CIP researchers in an article about fighting misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election.
Protocol highlights the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a coalition of research entities including the Center for an Informed Public, and the exhaustive work pouring over social media analytics tools, and tips that go into researching misinformation and identifying false narratives. Many social media organizations like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok are collaborating with the EIP directly.
Tara Wadhwa, a safety policy manager at TikTok, explained that the EIP is providing actionable insights that have helped to “maintain the integrity of TikTok.”
Koltai acknowledges that the EIP represents the work of many people. “This is not a five-person project,” Koltai explained to Protocol. “We have a huge group of undergraduates, masters, Ph.D. students, post-docs, as well as people from the private sector. It has been a huge collaborative effort.”
Post-election, the EIP team plans to release a report about misinformation and disinformation during the 2020 election.
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