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Who Voters Trust for Election Information in 2024
With the Bipartisan Policy Center and the States United Democracy Center, we released new survey results exploring how Americans consume, assess, and engage with election information in 2024. We found that Americans learn about elections primarily through television and social media. Authoritative sources may struggle to break through or create universal narratives amidst a crowded information environment.
European Commission Cites Integrity Institute in Its Elections Integrity Guidance
Chief research officer Jeff Allen shares the news about the European Commission extensively citing the Institute’s work
Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Defining and Achieving Success
Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.
Defining and Achieving Success in Elections Integrity
Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.
How Much Has Social Media Affected Polarization?
Following the first published research from the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study (FIES), Tom shows that social media has probably not made a huge contribution to US polarization and how we can extrapolate estimates from the FIES to other effects of interest, specifically the aggregate impact of social media on the US over the last 20 years.
The Ultimate Guide to Election Integrity! with Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson
It might be May 2023, but it’s never too early to start worrying about elections! 2024 is slated to be the biggest year of elections in platform history. In this Trust in Tech episode, Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson join the show to prepare you for the storm of elections coming in 2024.
Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Responsibly Supporting Elections on Online Platforms
With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a US presidential election, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new guide – the first in a planned series – on best practices for online companies to help better support healthy elections across platforms, particularly those who are newer or smaller.
Responsibly Supporting Elections on Online Platforms
With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a US presidential election, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new guide – the first in a planned series – on best practices for online companies to help better support healthy elections across platforms, particularly those who are newer or smaller.
Insights from Data: What the Numbers Tell Us About Elections and Future of Democracy
2024 has 65 elections globally across 54 countries. We won’t see that many again until 2048. Katie Harbath and Ana Khizanishvili share what these numbers from global elections tell us about the future of democracy.
Election Cycle Tracker
The Institute launched a global election cycle tracker that highlights how frequently countries hold elections and when their next ones are scheduled. This tool is part of our Elections Integrity Program, led by Katie Harbath, and was developed by Katie together with Ana Khizanishvili for Anchor Change.
2022 US Midterm Elections Misinformation Amplification Analysis
We do not see any significant difference between the overall MAF and the elections and voting MAF for Facebook and Instagram. But for Twitter, we see a significantly smaller MAF for elections and voting misinfo.
Election Integrity Program Announcement
Thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Integrity Institute will be running a program supporting the integrity of elections on social media platforms through 2024.
Tech Company 2022 Midterm Election Announcements
A graph looking at what topics social media companies have highlighted in their announcements for the U.S. 2022 midterm elections.
Technology Platforms Election Database
A filterable database which contains information from nearly 50 companies about their work on elections across the globe over the past 20 years.
Open Letter to Elon Musk
We agree that transparency, ethics, and free expression are keys to Twitter’s future. Here’s how you can make that happen.
I Worked at Facebook. It’s Not Ready for This Year’s Election Wave.
Elections Program Lead Katie Harbath’s New York Times op-ed on the coming wave of elections in the next few years that social media platforms must prepare for.