The Cyber Policy Center is a joint initiative of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Law School.
The Virality Project final report finds recycled anti-vaccine narratives and viral content driven by recurring actors.
A new playbook from the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) aims to help identify, respond to, and build long-term resilience to election-related information manipulation, attacks on information integrity and threats to delegitimize elections globally.
An article in the Journal of National Security Law and Policy (JNSLP) from James X. Dempsey of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance.
Researchers Shelby Grossman, Renee DiResta and Josh A. Goldstein examine Middle East influence operations across social media, including how regimes incorporated social media activities into their own domestic and foreign policy toolkits. The full paper can be found at the Project on Middle East Political Science website.
Can Technical Solutions, Including Blockchain, Help Us Avoid Hard Tradeoffs?
A new publication from the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) at Stanford University, with contributions by Shelby Grossman and others from the Stanford Internet Observatory
The Project on Middle East Political Science partnered with Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and its Global Digital Policy Incubator for an innovative two week online seminar to explore the issues surrounding digital activism and authoritarianism. This workshop was built upon more than a decade of our collaboration on issues related to the internet and politics in the Middle East, beginning in 2011 with a series of workshops in the “Blogs and Bullets” project supported by the United States Institute for Peace and the PeaceTech Lab. This new collaboration brought together more than a dozen scholars and practitioners with deep experience in digital policy and activism, some focused on the Middle East and others offering a global and comparative perspective. POMEPS STUDIES 43 collects essays from that workshop, shaped by two weeks of public and private discussion.
Opinion piece in the Washington Post, by David Kaye and Marietje Schaake
A Compendium of Research from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project
From the Journal of Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press | Volume 32, Number 3, July 2021
Op-ed in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, by Gregory Falco and Sejal Jhawer
Essay published by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Report of the Task Force on US Strategy to Support Democracy and Counter Authoritarianism
Journal of Democracy from Volume 32, Number 2, April 2021 | Johns Hopkins University Press
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.