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New Report Provides Inside Look and Lessons from Monitoring COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Narratives
The Virality Project final report finds recycled anti-vaccine narratives and viral content driven by recurring actors.
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Written evidence submitted by Daphne Keller, Director of Program on Platform Regulation (OSB0057)
Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and Beyond
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.
Response to “Request for Information: Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework” (86 FR 40810)
Data Collection: Lessons of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Skepticism, and Legal Transparency
An article in the Journal of National Security Law and Policy (JNSLP) from James X. Dempsey of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance.
Middle East Influence Operations: Observations Across Social Media Takedowns
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.
Privacy, Middleware, and Interoperability
Can Technical Solutions, Including Blockchain, Help Us Avoid Hard Tradeoffs?
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
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
Topologies and Tribulations of Gettr : A month in the life of a new alt-network
POMEPS Studies 43: Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East
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: Global spyware such as Pegasus is a threat to democracy. Here’s how to stop it.
Opinion piece in the Washington Post, by David Kaye and Marietje Schaake
My Heart Loves the Army: An Investigation into a Jordanian Disinformation Campaign on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter (TAKEDOWN)
The Virus and the Vote: Administering the 2020 Election in a Pandemic
A Compendium of Research from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project
The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work
From the Journal of Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press | Volume 32, Number 3, July 2021
How to Protect Critical Infrastructure Fom Ransomware Attacks
Op-ed in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, by Gregory Falco and Sejal Jhawer
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance
Amplification and Its Discontents
Essay published by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
One Face, Many Names: An Investigation into Fake NGOs and Media Outlets Linked to Harouna Douamba on and off Facebook (TAKEDOWN)
Reversing the Tide: Towards a New US Strategy to Support Democracy and Counter Authoritarianism
Report of the Task Force on US Strategy to Support Democracy and Counter Authoritarianism
Making the Internet Safe for Democracy
Journal of Democracy from Volume 32, Number 2, April 2021 | Johns Hopkins University Press
Self-harm Policies and Internet Platforms
The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election
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.