https://www.eipartnership.net/policy-analysis daily 0.75 2022-08-01 https://www.eipartnership.net/policy-analysis/category/Policy+Analysis monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/policy-analysis/category/Election+2020 monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/policy-analysis/category/policy-analysis monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/policy-analysis/category/2020-archive monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response daily 0.75 2022-08-01 https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/remove-label-ignore-platforms-responses-to-viral-misinfo-about-mail-in-ballots-vary monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600906347746-IBB6CL086R81DPRWXKHF/table_policies.png Rapid Response - Remove, Label, Ignore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600910831593-DD66KB5XC894STXXXH4Q/Screen+Shot+2020-09-18+at+11.58.49+AM.png Rapid Response - Remove, Label, Ignore After an initial spread on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube the content migrated to TikTok as well. TikTok content received over 100K views before removal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600908967698-1FE0UKFMPA8WK7989CCS/ballots_marked.png Rapid Response - Remove, Label, Ignore An example of this content from mid-August which got over 110K views on Twitter. The EIP reported this content to the Twitter team and it has since been taken down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600910503160-C76J8KYIT0EBZAP6PKJW/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+6.03.47+PM.png Rapid Response - Remove, Label, Ignore https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/public-voter-registration-records monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/follow-for-follow-amplification-networks-misinformation-on-california-voting-process monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600738425838-AGI3SVSMKOKWOI83HVGV/Screen+Shot+2020-09-21+at+5.19.01+PM-1.png Rapid Response - Follow-for-Follow Amplification Networks: Misinformation on California Voting Process An exemplar tweet from a user who is part This user is part of a left-wing #FBR (#Follow Back Resistance) follow-for-follow amplification network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600794647925-4LNNUMS1J4U1DJUVE7M8/image+%282%29.png Rapid Response - Follow-for-Follow Amplification Networks: Misinformation on California Voting Process A Facebook post shared a misleading message above a link to an accurate article from the Orange County Register reporting on Newsom’s executive order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600794595628-X3ONJX37VY4TCAP30L5N/pasted+image+0.png Rapid Response - Follow-for-Follow Amplification Networks: Misinformation on California Voting Process A tweet from a now-suspended account that spread misinformation about voting processes in California. The body of the tweet tags 20 other twitter users, a common practice in follow-for-follow accounts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600794697138-K099C30PVB7HSHOTLCBQ/Screen+Shot+2020-09-18+at+7.32.38+PM.png Rapid Response - Follow-for-Follow Amplification Networks: Misinformation on California Voting Process A post carrying a Facebook fact check label incorrectly states that voters will be turned away at the polls. https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/misleading-google-ads-florida monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600655301940-KMMJCM26E48GF8YTHZM2/Florida+Ad+2.png Rapid Response - A Floating Headline, a Misleading Claim: A Google Search Ad Targets Florida Election Officials - Information shared with Google users when clicking “About” under an ad . Information shared with Google users when clicking “About” under an ad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600661675095-BSUPKN0B8EN571SJ3HST/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-20%2Bat%2B7.49.41%2BPM.jpg Rapid Response - A Floating Headline, a Misleading Claim: A Google Search Ad Targets Florida Election Officials - The Florida Citizens’ Alliance ad that appeared on Google Search on Sept. 15, 2020 A screen still from the widely shared video showing the absentee ballot request form with campaign branding. https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/partisan-absentee-request-forms monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600471253506-D4IXXFVVC332MUHL0M6I/absenteeregistration.png Rapid Response - Confusion about absentee ballot request forms circulates across platforms - A screen still from the widely shared video showing the absentee ballot request form with campaign branding. A screen still from the widely shared video showing the absentee ballot request form with campaign branding. https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/misleading-ads-highlight-loopholes-in-googles-policies monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1599770719848-36DQSKZZY18X9NMUJOII/Washington+Times+Misleading+Ad.png Rapid Response - Misleading Ads Highlight Loopholes in Google’s Policies - The Washington Times ad that appeared on Google Search on September 8, 2020. The Washington Times ad that appeared on Google Search on September 8, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1599771375287-DYFPOTIG7W0CQNUGHAYU/Mail+In+Voting+Misleading+Ad.png Rapid Response - Misleading Ads Highlight Loopholes in Google’s Policies - A misleading Washington Times ad running in the results of a Google search for “mail-in voting”. A misleading Washington Times ad running in the results of a Google search for “mail-in voting”. https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/category/Rapid+Response monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/rapid-response/category/Election+2020 monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/news daily 0.75 2022-08-02 https://www.eipartnership.net/news/category/news monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/news/category/Election+2020 monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/news/category/News monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/news/category/2020-archive monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020 daily 0.75 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1595731448429-6G57WM0RS6GGB97KDTHW/9d177c_b90239a7fdff479bb02adce1aabe5308_mv2.jpg Election 2020 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/7cd25f25-74d6-4862-b333-957161cbec39/io.jpg Election 2020 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1596219921266-VVKDZYWO9KTJM0VM23RC/SIO-ElectionLogo-Final-01.png Election 2020 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/f4668540-8050-4606-958e-cf0ee45af09c/CenterInformedPublic_UW_ogsize.jpg Election 2020 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1595731518920-96WYWV7MVCEMG1LQA72N/dark-grey.png Election 2020 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/election-delegitimization-coming-to-you-live monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1605736904188-288B5RZ2JZ978I41EF5M/Screen+Shot+2020-11-18+at+2.01.02+PM.png Election 2020 - Election Delegitimization: Coming to you Live Table 1 Description: A breakdown of platform policies that intersect both election-related content and livestreams. This table was informed by Facebook’s 2019 Livestream Policy, Community Standards, and Elections Policy; TikTok’s Elections Policy; Twitch’s General Policy; Twitter and Periscope’s General Policy and Elections Policy; and YouTube’s General Policy, Elections Policy, and Livestream Policy *Twitch defines misinformation as: “feigning distress, posting misleading metadata, or intentional channel miscategorization” https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/what-the-election-results-dont-tell-us monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604681270867-7UH92BXGY6VCPJ2T6JM0/Ronny+Georg+Nordvik+Trump+Parade+Group+copy.png Election 2020 - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604681155765-NVI4GW5KF9DKRKJHFNQO/Conservitarians+copy.png Election 2020 - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604681476943-CQH8BXJX1OQGM19EEP7P/Vote+Canada+copy+%281%29.png Election 2020 - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604681034009-IERZPYMI86YH88XKMM34/Screen+Shot+2020-11-05+at+8.10.06+PM.png Election 2020 - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604681094705-IZ4U2OS9A90D84QWFT91/Screen+Shot+2020-11-05+at+8.13.07+PM.png Election 2020 - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/false-victory-headlines monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604601651147-OD53GD5Y94FUETVXYOX4/unnamed+%288%29.png Election 2020 - Media Largely Frames Trump’s Victory Declaration as False in Headlines A breakdown of how media outlets with different political leanings described President Trump’s false claim of victory in breaking news headlines. With the exception of right-leaning outlets, most headlines either explicitly labeled Trump’s claim as false, or qualified his statement. Some headlines only used the word “claimed” or “declared” to describe Trump’s words, and still others quoted him directly. The stories here come from a collection of over 13,000 media outlets collected by MediaCloud. We use MediaCloud’s labels for political leaning as of 2019, and only included stories published in the hour after Trump’s speech. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/weaponizing-projections-as-tools-of-election-delegitimization monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604448342245-KDHZTK6C90IVXYHBM996/floridalabel.png Election 2020 - Weaponizing projections as tools of election delegitimization https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604448359593-A3DEETQBRYG3WI1OJMRB/norpothlabeled.png Election 2020 - Weaponizing projections as tools of election delegitimization https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/russian-narratives-on-election-fraud monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604387497073-GCAGOCJY1Z4VT9K4WMXO/pasted+image+0+%2825%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud USAReally headline, September 25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604387886078-J29C034ZOM9G6N8ZQ6JZ/pasted+image+0+%2829%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Excerpts from two articles on USA Really accusing Facebook and Google of censorship, bias and election meddling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388156390-WGPS7AZG6CDY587LN11O/pasted+image+0+%2830%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Posts by NAEBC assets on Parler accusing Twitter, Facebook and Google of election censorship and interference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388470423-IIWDSL470X4Z6DCPS7WX/pasted+image+0+%2834%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud RT headline, October 16, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388289304-FGV3RSP9XPIV413TWH8U/pasted+image+0+%2832%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Sample posts from NAEBC assets on Parler that specifically reference the New York Post story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604387662656-MGGJ2E7HJX3QO8BDVIBH/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Excerpt from USA Really on electoral fraud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388393992-09NO0YHESN4XOOHEHC8G/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Sputnik headline, August 24, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388238493-S2QZ9YUZR1B6XCGD0XFQ/pasted+image+0+%2831%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Excerpts from two USA Really articles on the Hunter Biden “leaks;” note the explicit claim of election interference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604387591651-9WRJ0SPM7TJIMEVUHDLC/pasted+image+0+%2826%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud USAReally headline, October 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604387751431-WDEF0W524DMX9Q53D3BJ/pasted+image+0+%2828%29.png Election 2020 - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Sample posts by NAEBC assets on Parler amplifying claims of pro-Democratic election fraud. We have obscured the handles of these accounts to avoid giving them a greater audience. Note the unidiomatic English in the top left-hand post: “Don’t let Democrats to cheat their way to the power!” https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/eip-on-election-day monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/2016-vs-2020 monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604164427866-ENN25HFGUZE0I6IITR2E/trigram1.png Election 2020 - Then and Now: How Online Conversations About Voter Fraud Have Changed Since 2016 Figure 4. Trigrams used by followers pro-Trump journalists and influencers in the Graphika general election misinformation map from September 28th to October 28th, 2020. They are ranked according to the level of unique attention being paid to them by the group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604163829614-PI51LB6WZ6RA4XCBD69V/topics2.png Election 2020 - Then and Now: How Online Conversations About Voter Fraud Have Changed Since 2016 Figure 3: Prevalence of a selection of threatening search terms or term sets in Dataset 1, broken down by users’ political ideology (estimated). Tweets must be election-related to be counted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604164465595-3JNT2KQFRIR0OX8JECIE/trigram2.png Election 2020 - Then and Now: How Online Conversations About Voter Fraud Have Changed Since 2016 Figure 5. Hashtags used by followers of pro-Trump journalists and influencers in the Graphika general election misinformation map from September 28th to October 28th, 2020. They are ranked according to the level of unique attention being paid to them by the group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604163601018-GM4QCN1L281W04JHMMP9/searchterms.png Election 2020 - Then and Now: How Online Conversations About Voter Fraud Have Changed Since 2016 Figure 2: Prevalence of a selection of threatening search terms or term sets in the 2016 and 2020 Twitter data we described above. Tweets must be election-related to be counted. ““Mail” & Fraud-related Lexicon” refers to tweets that include both topics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604163452674-6WDD1YO51JNHWQBMQ8CH/quadgrams.png Election 2020 - Then and Now: How Online Conversations About Voter Fraud Have Changed Since 2016 Figure 1: Most prevalent 4-word sequences (quagrams) in Twitter Dataset 1 for 2016 and 2020, broken down by an estimate of the user’s political ideology. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/how-to-prepare-for-election-day-misinformation monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604093860394-7H38OYXUPIA5VMHBMYNA/SIO-ElectionLogo-Final-01.png Election 2020 - Election Official Handbook: Preparing for Election Day Misinformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604092363256-FYEHYSOSTIRUTRW9BU7X/new_table.png Election 2020 - Election Official Handbook: Preparing for Election Day Misinformation Image from EIP’s full analysis of the information space during the post election period, which includes our recommendations for the general public and media in this time period. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/repeat-offenders monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604001961689-BNBZS0B5LZQLRGJ5A9O1/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+8.48.36+AM.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Figure 3: Collection of headlines from Gateway Pundit articles that contained misleading information and framing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604002280240-GV90AV3MCLVG8KQHZRDV/pasted+image+0+%2821%29.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Figure 5: A plot of the number of retweets a story by KTLA on a surveillance video of mail being dumped in a Glendale Parking lot. Selected tweets with large numbers of retweets are highlighted, with arrows indicating the time of the tweet. The first account is anonymized because the user is not verified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604001878736-FOWX2CX6FNA59DGZAYTC/pasted+image+0+%2819%29.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Figure 2: Tweets repeating misleading claims in an apparently coordinated manner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604002112376-CP4U0R797JV3HFVSF3A7/pasted+image+0+%2820%29.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Figure 4: A plot of the number of retweets linked to misinformation about Michigan overseas ballots. Selected tweets with large numbers of retweets are highlighted, with arrows indicating the time of the tweet. Two accounts are anonymized because the users are not verified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604008193478-5H15LPN48DN1TRAMKRH7/pasted+image+0+%2824%29.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Figure 6: A plot of the number of tweets and retweets linking to articles about ‘mail dumping’ in Wisconsin from four domains. Selected tweets with large numbers of retweets are highlighted, with arrows indicating the time of the tweet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604008336635-T8CDVETGHMO8J7TBV6MC/table+100.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Table 2: Top hashtags appearing in the Twitter bios of non-verified, repeat offenders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604001742416-VR7QD7DM57DFYOL91J6A/pasted+image+0+%2817%29.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Table 1: Twitter accounts that repeatedly shared misleading information about mail-in voting and voter fraud. Non-verified users, with the exception of John Solomon (manager of Just The News), are anonymized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604001823222-TXQUSZXJN3Q39PUKPF38/pasted+image+0+%2818%29.png Election 2020 - Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election Figure 1. Screenshots showing how Twitter users created false narratives of voter fraud from a video depicting waste from a recycling facility https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/platform-policies monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602699941027-64PVZAFPL65K172QF20G/Screen+Shot+2020-10-14+at+7.54.16+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Platform Election-Related Speech Policies Figure 2: The three scenarios represent different statements with varying levels of “evidence” to support each claim. Scenario 4 has been added to this analysis as of September 11, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603907966875-K1V4IBADYXR3R7FHOHZ2/Screen+Shot+2020-10-28+at+10.39.12+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Platform Election-Related Speech Policies Figure 3: UPDATE: This chart has been updated as of October 28, 2020, to reflect a recent announcement from TikTok. An additional fifth column was added to address whether the platforms name their authoritative source for determining when the election results are called. The evaluation of the policies by platform was informed by their community guidelines and standards linked here: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Nextdoor, TikTok, and Snapchat. For more detail about each platform’s policies and justification for each evaluation, see the attached PDF at the end of the blog post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602700149279-XABWZGDVO3R9MMRS5113/Screen+Shot+2020-10-14+at+7.54.55+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Platform Election-Related Speech Policies Figure 4: The three scenarios represent different levels of voter intimidation and violence that may ensue at a polling location. These scenarios are used to test the platform policies, the results of which are shown in the next table, Figure 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603759020668-MRJM45FD08MU4Q8RIUAK/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+4.34.07+PM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Platform Election-Related Speech Policies Figure 1: UPDATE: This chart was edited on October 26 2020, to reflect policy changes from YouTube. The evaluation of the policies by platform was informed by their community guidelines and standards linked here: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Nextdoor, TikTok and Snapchat. For more detail about each platform’s policies and justification for each evaluation, see the attached PDF at the end of the blog post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603819988523-I4CBLQCPUPQRT0NEYFWG/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+10.32.53+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Platform Election-Related Speech Policies Figure 5: UPDATE: This chart has been updated as of October 27, 2020. The evaluation of policies by platform was informed by different platforms’ newsroom posts and community guidelines linked here: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Nextdoor TikTok, and Snapchat. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/well-intentioned-misinformation monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603856220222-91XFS6NGEYKG8RG78VQ1/friend_of_a_friend.png Election 2020 - Seeking To Help and Doing Harm: The Case of Well-Intentioned Misinformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603857344032-7RASEDTA47SW2AD3IGOE/cherokee_county_clarification.png Election 2020 - Seeking To Help and Doing Harm: The Case of Well-Intentioned Misinformation Cherokee County Elections Department posts a clarification to its Facebook page, addressing the “friend-of-a-friend” message and correcting the well-intentioned misinformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603856075456-WFXBQN7GOVOYFNAWOSE7/Prevalence+of+EIP-tracked+Well-Intentioned+Misinformation%2C+Broken+Down+By+Narrative.png Election 2020 - Seeking To Help and Doing Harm: The Case of Well-Intentioned Misinformation An examination of 127 pieces of misinformation collected by the EIP, divided by narrative category, and evaluated by the definition of well-intentioned misinformation. Narrative categories for which no well-intentioned misinformation was present are excluded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603856752659-SW5ITG370BMBW73K777Y/infographic_misinformation.png Election 2020 - Seeking To Help and Doing Harm: The Case of Well-Intentioned Misinformation https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/public-update-3 monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603842077758-0U3C75Z441VUPBCCXZ5C/Category+frequency+over+time.png Election 2020 - EIP Weekly Update: Oct. 27 Election mis- or disinformation category frequency over time https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/ballot-harvesting monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603823147044-PTK3Q0M9US5PK3HH204G/ballotharvestingct Election 2020 - The Ballot Harvesting Trope Figure 3: Interactions with public Facebook Posts using the hashtag #ballotharvesting or the text “ballot harvesting” from April 1 to Oct. 24, 2020. A peak of interactions occurred on April 14 with a post from President Trump (Source: Crowdtangle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603823471622-C49OD0CD4JHEZ9X382AO/graphika-ballotharvesting Election 2020 - The Ballot Harvesting Trope Figure 4: A timeline of Twitter accounts from a Graphika election map that used the hashtag #ballotharvesting over the last month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603823792353-SWZUWIFEQFC2M26URCRF/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+10.12.30+AM.png Election 2020 - The Ballot Harvesting Trope Figure 5: Tweets (left) and Facebook Posts (right) using #ballotharvesting in reference to incidents unrelated to ballot collection. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/friend-of-a-friend-stories-as-a-vehicle-for-misinformation monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603760586426-HF4U4OHS4GY8VNHLID92/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+6.00.45+PM.png Election 2020 - “Friend of a Friend” Stories as a Vehicle for Misinformation Differing responses from Facebook on the same misinformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603758814337-V6EUCVXI5HUQ3B553I6L/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+4.27.25+PM.png Election 2020 - “Friend of a Friend” Stories as a Vehicle for Misinformation CrowdTangle analysis on Facebook showing multiple accounts, groups, and pages sharing the same poll worker story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603760869109-0CFGM5NVGCUF74TXEZZA/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+6.04.10+PM.png Election 2020 - “Friend of a Friend” Stories as a Vehicle for Misinformation Posts by two different users on Facebook (left) and Twitter (right) spreading the narrative that their friend had their vote switched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603761032942-7DAIDB6DW1RRSU0O3I86/unnamed-2.png Election 2020 - “Friend of a Friend” Stories as a Vehicle for Misinformation The same story being shared both on Facebook (left) and in private messages (right). https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/what-to-expect monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603683678736-LA08S9FQ0UP3AVGC5GTI/Screen+Shot+2020-10-25+at+7.43.56+PM.png Election 2020 - Uncertainty and Misinformation: What to Expect on Election Night and Days After https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/foreign-election-interference-announcement monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603423731712-UNLU76B31UQVZ5G8WEST/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+4.49.13+PM.png Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement The video shows folders for 40 different states at the end of the video. Notably, the excluded states, with the exception of Alabama, are the 9 states that do not offer online voter registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603423105262-4WBMCSUR44CYGCLEOE6E/fvap.png Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement The “hacker” fills out an FWAB using information from the Alaska voting rolls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603422665336-FFU86YDH65EBHZY3ZCAK/payload-screenshot.jpg Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603422321436-28B130FYUKMVFDCTM24O/download-7.jpg Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement An email obtained by ProofPoint links to a video claiming to be from the Proud Boys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603421962862-0E11XA2XX4OE90BX7UTP/Image1-pb.png Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement An email obtained by Alaska Public Media threatening voters to “vote for Trump or else” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603422116657-OEWLC0T3E8J1HPZUI6S9/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+4.40.55+PM.png Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement An email obtained by EIP appears to have been sent via a compromised host in Saudi Arabia, from a user utilizing a VPN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603422510739-IRH35HSHFQ3YMX7LLV86/sqlmap-usage.png Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement A screenshot from the video showing sqlmap configuration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603422791562-H2PTX3MGBFL18SHK6P3Y/ScreenRecorder-2020-10-07_08.48.19.png Election 2020 - Analysis of Wednesday’s foreign election interference announcement https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/inconsistent-efforts-against-us-election-misinformation-in-non-english monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256999324-U57FYRSF1HNOYOPICQ3O/image.jpg Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257623354-VTERGX89EKA3VZG9NAVQ/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+3.50.32+PM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257623905-6BFGKKS2ZBS1IBRVZSVY/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+3.51.32+PM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257623139-9TSUG126UUNTV2JQLKBE/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+3.53.57+PM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256604987-0K2TM02GE6D2JQ7678ZA/image.jpg Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages Figure 2: Top: YouTube video claiming people can vote twice in the mail-in ballot system with over 4k views. Its title includes “U.S. election fraud method“ (美国大选选票造假手法). Bottom: YouTube video on mail-in vote fraud allegations with over 11.5k views. Its title includes the claim that “mail-in vote might be fraudulent” (邮寄选票可能舞弊). Neither video is labeled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257055963-IEZ9KD9BXNQPQ5D3C89C/YouTube_PragerU_Spanish.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages Figure 6: Top: A labeled YouTube video redirecting users to the Bipartisan Policy Center offering information on voting by mail. Bottom: For Spanish-language YouTube users, the label disappears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257159264-SHK2EV4VKVSBTGR36034/YouTube_ChineseVid_Chinese.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages Figure 7: Top: English-language users are shown a label on a Chinese-language video containing election misinformation. Bottom: Chinese-language users are not shown any label. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256697923-8JFDT2LQXOMCAS5QJVPE/Spanish_Twitter_Tweet.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256697924-O89EUWONJGFUWO0DE6CY/Chinese_Twitter_Tweet.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257342045-4L7J6M6KCFS53EAF125I/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-20%2Bat%2B5.55.09%2BPM.jpg Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257303340-PPPBAF6XWDPD825UTMI5/TikTok_Spanish_center.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257303339-03UNFY60CBEGEGU9PQ43/TikTok_Chinese_center.png Election 2020 - 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Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256885060-JFXOYFODOITIH6K79N1D/Chinese_Twitter_VBM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256884924-R444L4WSWSFHKRJF2J9R/Spanish_Twitter_VBM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256199465-X3MDFAGB54TX6PLWW53C/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+4.16.15+PM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256253491-DIFC4Y8K1E5Q3AA43FQN/Screen+Shot+2020-10-18+at+1.08.24+PM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603257114312-NNT4QGRQPW36PZHP8VF3/YouTube_ChineseVid_English.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603256783295-QA9JS1L5WBDZF40N5PW4/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+7.10.19+PM.png Election 2020 - Platforms of Babel: Inconsistent misinformation support in non-English languages Figure 4: Misleading or false Chinese-language Tweet with English-language label https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/narratives-targeting-electronic-voting-machines monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603243978853-92RFCPK95PJZ48RV5B6F/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+7.49.29+PM.png Election 2020 - Narratives Targeting Electronic Voting Machines Twitter users responding to reports that the memory sticks were stolen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603231808746-XATI7LQIVJS72YWRVC4V/unnamed+%287%29.png Election 2020 - Narratives Targeting Electronic Voting Machines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603243701202-VEAKJWVQS05NPIEL2ESX/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+12.34.09+AM.png Election 2020 - Narratives Targeting Electronic Voting Machines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603244086735-EGWYONNRVC0LUK10DHEH/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+8.32.41+AM.png Election 2020 - Narratives Targeting Electronic Voting Machines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603243791883-ZZ1SFDLTJKEKAZYKC53E/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+12.34.51+AM.png Election 2020 - Narratives Targeting Electronic Voting Machines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603243854115-RJG30JNDOEDG0BFLPFYH/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+12.35.34+AM.png Election 2020 - Narratives Targeting Electronic Voting Machines https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/public-update-2 monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603241628553-S4O2ESMOL9EBC3Y52UOH/azaheer%40stanford.edu Election 2020 - EIP Weekly Update: Oct. 20 Election mis- or disinformation actioned by EIP: topics, last week vs. all time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603241777913-EN4JH0AB2B4SQDE5XFKH/eip_oct20_misinfo_topics.png Election 2020 - EIP Weekly Update: Oct. 20 Election mis- or disinformation actioned by EIP by topic, Oct. 13th to Oct. 20th https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/false-voting-claims-spread-via-websites-and-facebook-ads monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603161174153-B8C9D2KLGG55M3L07251/SG.png Election 2020 - False voting claims spread via websites and Facebook ads RiskIQ historical records indicating that the email was previously the registrant and admin of civilrightsinternational.org, top. Who.is read-out linking the same email to plaintruthnow.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603161672293-ZPS7EJJ28XAKYH3OCMAI/SG1.png Election 2020 - False voting claims spread via websites and Facebook ads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603161687535-PLSVESKD40LFJBCSZNKB/SG2.png Election 2020 - False voting claims spread via websites and Facebook ads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603161747031-QRPV1C96R5NKDLBI8K9Y/SG5.png Election 2020 - False voting claims spread via websites and Facebook ads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1603161602981-6C0XUW5HUWQ3UTCVP67Y/SG3.png Election 2020 - False voting claims spread via websites and Facebook ads An ad from the Civil Rights International Facebook Page. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/election-delegitimization-meta-narratives monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985154133-3OPO6X3E4RTA0MYQB5HR/pasted+image+0+%2811%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time Darren Beattie’s debut on Tucker Carlson, above, drove up public awareness of the color revolution thesis. Graph from CrowdTangle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985395903-47GJR9BBSK5K6XVSNDWZ/unnamed+%283%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time Jack Posobiec, an alt-right political activist and correspondent for One American News Network, promotes the color revolution framing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985239403-YHOZXA7N8J16BKHGS5N0/pasted+image+0+%2812%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time An example of a ‘super spreader’ posting dynamic from an individual who posted this exact message in at least 10 public groups within a 20 min time period on September 16th. The combination of mainstreaming efforts by conservative influencers and adoption and propagation by Facebook users has pushed the color revolution frame into a broader portion of the right-wing social media ecosystem. A quick search on Twitter for the term turns up hundreds of casual uses of the term each day; CrowdTangle data indicates the same is true on Facebook. As of October 13th, color revolution narrative activity is not increasing but instead seems to have become a low-grade background chatter with occasional spikes of usage activity when prominent influencers renew their use of the term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985512117-K1ET07QS4FSJUPA7AJJL/unnamed+%284%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time A recent example of color revolution being leveraged by an ordinary user to explain the most recent actions of YouTube against QAnon on their platform. This also is consistent with the incorporation of the color revolution narrative into the omniconspiracy QAnon after the terminology was used in an October 7th Q-drop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602984964236-95DEKOBQ8L0M3DIVCQGE/pasted+image+0+%289%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985115238-3QW0JFQX8DFZZJKS8ZXJ/unnamed+%281%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985027640-ZUTK4UVXBB41IBL4VDJH/pasted+image+0+%2810%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time RT op-eds and articles speculating about a color revolution in the US began to appear as early as August 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602985329075-KU5DO3JOI4OJW3VBJTXR/unnamed+%282%29.png Election 2020 - Laying the Groundwork: Meta-Narratives and Delegitimization Over Time Twitter activity for the term ‘color revolution’ per day over a week-long period. The narrative experienced another low-grade spike with the publishing of another Revolver.News piece on the matter. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/public-update-1 monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602627317877-5YH8P69U24TIDS8B5K9U/narrative_breakdown_%21.png Election 2020 - EIP Weekly Update: Oct. 13 Election misinformation analyzed by EIP by topic as of Oct. 13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602627427013-5G638ZB81VXCRHO7EK7E/Total+In-Scope+Incidents+and+Total+Escalations+%281%29.png Election 2020 - EIP Weekly Update: Oct. 13 Total in-scope incidents and total escalations to social media platforms, by platform https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/north-macedonian-content-farms monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602547050926-EJUDG428MFYAZ21SIW3M/image-asset.png Election 2020 - A Look Into Viral North Macedonian Content Farms Figure 3: Search results for Donald Trump on Parler yield Donald Trump Tweets first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602546950418-MZ13KKBDF2GCQ16B680L/image-asset.png Election 2020 - A Look Into Viral North Macedonian Content Farms Figure 2: Parler Profile for “Donald Trump Tweets”, an account that prolifically shares Resist the Mainstream content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602546866606-KZC734HXBUE3JPAJRICP/image-asset.png Election 2020 - A Look Into Viral North Macedonian Content Farms Figure 1: Resist the Mainstream About Page listing a mailing address in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602548363655-RP7847C2NNZ08IQ2K8I0/image-asset.png Election 2020 - A Look Into Viral North Macedonian Content Farms Figure 4: Like Resist the Mainstream, Team Candace Owens lists an international forwarding mailbox, this time in New York, as their mailing address. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602548486423-VBV5T77LZM7S4I55NX09/image-asset.png Election 2020 - A Look Into Viral North Macedonian Content Farms Figure 5: One viral article on Team Candace Owens received over 40,000 interactions on Facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602548927374-4MX8WYJ6ZEZHGXY74HAI/image-asset.png Election 2020 - A Look Into Viral North Macedonian Content Farms Figure 6: A post shared by Pennsylvania State Representative David Rowe linked to a Resist the Mainstream article. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/army-of-trump monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602536359580-7C4DKD8P3OFP2B41K1Y7/trumptweetgraph.png Election 2020 - Left-Leaning Influencers, 'Mainstream' Media Play Big Role in Amplifying 'Army for Trump' Fears Figure 2: Volume (tweets per hour) of retweets, quotes, and quote retweets of Trump’s Oct. 5 tweet calling for Election Poll Watchers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602536490362-QU2N2X66BFN6NBT0IU91/trump-poll-watchers-tweet.png Election 2020 - Left-Leaning Influencers, 'Mainstream' Media Play Big Role in Amplifying 'Army for Trump' Fears Figure 3: Cumulative tweet graph showing retweets (circles) and quote tweets (diamonds) of President Trump’s Oct. 5 tweet calling for “election poll watchers.” The x-axis is time. The y-axis is the total number of tweets and retweets at that time. Tweets are sized according to the number of followers of the tweeting account. Tweets and retweets of conservative influencers are in red. Tweets and retweets of liberal influencers are in blue. Tweets from unclassified accounts are grey. Only tweets from accounts with more than 10,000 followers are visible (high visibility tweets). The majority of high-visibility retweets were posted by conservative influencers. The majority of high-visibility quote tweets were posted by liberal influencers. Interactive version of the graph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602536209993-GTYV2LX835S8GSCL852E/bittman-active-measures.png Election 2020 - Left-Leaning Influencers, 'Mainstream' Media Play Big Role in Amplifying 'Army for Trump' Fears Figure 1: Diagram illuminating Bittman’s theory of active measures. (1985, p. 50) https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/vast-majority-of-discarded-ballot-amplification-isnt-from-foreign-sources monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602024466566-ORCCBMW7KKF6VMAZQKX8/Screen+Shot+2020-10-06+at+3.47.17+PM.png Election 2020 - Foreign vs Domestic: An Examination of Amplification in a Ballot Misinformation Story Figure 3: Growth of tweets related to the dumping of ballots in Sonoma following the initial tweets by Elijah Riot and the Gateway Pundit. Size of shape corresponds to the size of the user’s audience. (View interactive graph) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602024257477-NU8ZJRS9ZEZ9DX9CM8N0/image1.png Election 2020 - Foreign vs Domestic: An Examination of Amplification in a Ballot Misinformation Story Figure 2: Original Tweeted Posted by user @ElijahSchaffer containing misleading image of recycled ballot envelopes from 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1602024161503-R3ZF2XOSK6BIXB99TJ94/image2.png Election 2020 - Foreign vs Domestic: An Examination of Amplification in a Ballot Misinformation Story Figure 1: Screenshot taken Sept. 25th of the original story posted on Gateway Pundit. As with Elijah Schaffer’s original tweet, Gateway Pundit claimed to have received the photos directly from an unnamed source. Gateway pundit has misleadingly updated the story several times, most recently with “The County of Sonoma put out a statement saying the ballots were from 2018. The county says the ballots were already opened. You can judge for yourself.” https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/inconsistencies-in-state-controlled-media-labeling monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939407348-WK1KXGN20PBFC67WJG34/RT+Old+Insta.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601938784431-WP1MY2RO25AY3VTCKA3P/RT+FB+Post.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601940875089-E6196ESSK5M7QT0RQNVW/RT+FB+Comp.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939887312-DC0Q1ZRMZ5ED8US15S37/RT+Stories.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939167007-NIIYJZLTTVQDX0F2DDW2/RT+Tweet.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601936535691-DTSWEVA2ZDELAKWQ4ALQ/RT+YT+Main.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601925654207-317JYGMB5QHDU0C910ZZ/timeline.jpg Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling Image 1: Timeline of platform policy updates. Only YouTube articulated their labeling policy prior to summer 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601938698807-F03TWQ8MOQBAKE0796IQ/RT+YT+2.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601940260753-E7UTNVWMUMTAXBN5QIJ9/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939602853-Q3IHQUSBEPJDAV7IA44C/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939081405-A720EVQMHIK1MJENIJ9V/RT+FB+Page.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601940808811-06ER32ENNWUKG3F2R5NJ/RT+Insta+Comp.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939245715-S0Y2LLK8FKRDCDMEA4J5/RT+Twitter+Profile.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939782406-61FAYW1V2ISZLGDRGEU5/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601940247219-KLDYZBEVWMU1S49314K9/RT+Twitter+Search.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601939959771-RN8YP9UDYOCOVGFJP3U7/RT+FB+Live.png Election 2020 - Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/project-veritas-ballotharvesting monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601413786490-SG8JK34G1UBM8NLZVCBH/ballot+harvesting+9_24_2.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification Figure 2: A zoomed-in version of the cumulative graph introduced in Figure 1. This view has been annotated to narrate key aspects of the pre-release amplification timeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601364223337-LCD6P5HNK8RRI5FPJ068/pasted+image+0+%285%29.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601364185882-1NKY07EKE63T3SPP89HG/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601364140273-19S09W7CMHNUEIOYWWJI/image-asset.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification Figure 3: Twitter use of the hashtag #BallotHarvesting from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Pacific on Sept. 28. Size of shape corresponds to the size of the user’s audience. Annotations display the text of the tweets by O’Keefe and Trump, Jr. (View interactive graph) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601364087036-F9T2XGKRJY75Q4I2TO82/pasted+image+0+%283%29.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification Image 1: In the video accompanying his tweet, Lindell appears saying: “I just met James O’Keefe with Project Veritas and James showed me footage of systematic voter fraud going on.” This was the first indication of a Sunday release for the well-advertised Monday launch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601364327874-DW0B5X73WQLL84WHW6CW/image-asset.jpeg Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601363959922-DFNF1O12HPL55BRRAOQ6/pasted+image+0+%282%29.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification Figure 1: Cumulative graph of tweets about Ballot Harvesting or Ilhan Omar between Sept. 24-28. This graph only plots tweets from accounts with more than 10,000 followers. The shape and color of each tweet marking reflects the tweet type, while the size reflects the tweeting account’s follower count. This view demonstrates a notable aspect of elite disinformation, or the key role of verified influencers in propagating the chosen narrative early on. (Interactive Graph Here) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601397373654-R2A2W94HTM11H1PH0RR0/Screen+Shot+2020-09-29+at+9.34.28+AM.png Election 2020 - Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification Image 3: Donald Trump Jr’s video was both one of the earliest as well as the only video that was a direct upload instead of a direct reshare of the O’Keefe video. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/mail-dumping monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601356439022-D2U96G65Z0PZUS4QIQS2/oswalt-tweet.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601260601649-C6A82EK7LLSCL8LMUT6Z/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+3.56.56+PM.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity This link contains a large interactive version of the graph that can be explored to see tweet content and author information. Zooming in on the early propagation (lower left) reveals a number of conservative, pro-Trump and MAGA-branded accounts working to spread the article — and its misleading framing — through their networks. The narrative gets early amplification from @EricTrump (the large circle in lower left corner), and several other large-follower accounts such as @WayneDupreeShow, @TrumpWarRoom and @BreitbartNews help to sustain its spread over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601356496049-NE77L50YXCANRKKQOMTE/holt-tweet.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601260804180-QYVPY02NB23KY9A5EL5W/truck+dumpster+%281%29.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601356359780-EVJPPUP746WKX2KRP5A9/kirk-tweet.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601078516595-944XO4CEJQUUIV1CBARD/Network_Animation_Greenville_Blog_Captions.gif Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity Figure 4. Animated Network Graph Showing How Narratives about the Greenville, WI Mail-Dumping Event Spread Primarily through Politically Conservative and Pro-Trump Accounts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601356323060-ZDE1UJQ20RD9LUCKL2VU/caplan-tweet.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601261197540-OC2UQK2IKI1TJ1AU1GBT/pasted+image+0+%281%29.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601231578157-BBHYC8CGDG2SNL577Y5O/greendale-graph.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity Figure 2: Temporal Graph of the Greenville WI Mail Ditching Subset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601258739382-QO3U22SIJSA0BQYJY4F0/Network_Animation_Glendale_Blog_Captions.gif Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601231175926-CQHVZ2I4F0EJEPT2UK8E/dumping+1.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity - Image from a mail-dumping incident from Bond Hill, Ohio, August 2014. (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1601231252452-O1LXO0S6HCZYZSZTFGC8/dumping+2.png Election 2020 - Emerging Narratives Around ‘Mail Dumping’ and Election Integrity - Image from a mail-dumping incident in Petersburg, Virginia, February 2018. 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The Instagram account, grapejuiceboys has 3.1 million followers, therefore this ad has the potential to reach a large audience. However, this ad and others like it, do not show up in Facebook’s Ad Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600970153951-EPU2W9V8CQIC6CLF1VTT/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+10.53.36+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Transparency in Platform Political Advertising Policies Table 1: The evaluation of the platforms’ policies is informed by Facebook’s Ad Policies, About Social Issues, and Fact Checking Program Policies pages, Google’s Political Content, About the ad approval process, Advertising Policy on Misrepresentation, and political ads policy pages, Snapchat’s Advertising Policies, Reddit’s Advertising Policy, Hulu’s Ad policy, Roku Ad Policy Pandora Ad Policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600970042373-GDPSIWUD3TNWZ266YR3O/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+10.50.38+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Transparency in Platform Political Advertising Policies Table 2: The evaluation of the transparency policies by platform was informed by their advertising policies and Ad Library portals linked here: Facebook Ad Library, Google Transparency Report, Twitter Ads Transparency Center, Snapchat Ads Library, Reddit Political Ads Transparency Community, Hulu, Roku Ad Policy, and Pandora Ad Policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600969473847-L3J6FNS8XTHFC7XJJ9O9/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+10.21.02+AM.png Election 2020 - Evaluating Transparency in Platform Political Advertising Policies Figure 2: A screenshot taken September 24, 2020 from Google’s Transparency Report on ads shared by the Epoch Times. Epoch Times’ inclusion in Google’s Ad Library is an example of why allowing public access to ads run by media properties is helpful in understanding the type of content pushed by the media outlet. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/our-first-2-weeks-at-the-election-integrity-partnership monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600799700634-ZFPVONZV4WEWRXS6FCU3/In%3AOut+of+scope+Ticket+Breakdown.png Election 2020 - Our First 2 Weeks at the Election Integrity Partnership A breakdown of the most common narratives the EIP has seen within the first two weeks of operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600800219726-V96CL0S74EAYJXJZBE52/Incident+In-Scope+vs.+Out+of+Scope+Breakdown.png Election 2020 - Our First 2 Weeks at the Election Integrity Partnership The breakdown of all incidents which the EIP team investigated. Incidents were defined in or out of scope based on the EIP’s first platform policy breakdown post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600800362827-4EKBU7RJHHFQJE5V73TR/Total+In-Scope+Incidents+vs.+Total+Escalations+per+Platform.png Election 2020 - Our First 2 Weeks at the Election Integrity Partnership In-scope incidents investigated by the EIP broken down by platform. This is not a representative graph of the distribution of misinformation across platforms, rather, it depicts the EIP’s focus areas thus far based on tooling capacity and external reporting patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1600799760914-TS3KHLPD7CICG0Y4TWA5/In-Scope+Incident+Narrative+Breakdown.png Election 2020 - Our First 2 Weeks at the Election Integrity Partnership Visual representation of the narrative breakdown among tickets that were deemed In-Scope for the EIP. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/twitters-policy-election-misinfo-in-action monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598541430151-O7SI7N0T9W07H24UJBH3/figure1-trump-tweet-08232020 Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action - Figure 1: A screenshot of Trump’s tweet posted August 23, 2020 at 4:25am PT (7:25am ET). Figure 2: A screenshot of what Trump’s tweet looks like on most browsers. Some Twitter clients such as TweetDeck displayed the tweet without the notice. More detail on this discrepancy can be found here. When users click “view” the original text appears while the notice is still visible so the user knows the tweet’s content violates Twitter’s policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598541752489-JVZ8G1BB1OTKYUIKB685/Figure+4+.png Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Figure 4: The graph above displays the volume per-minute of retweets (Black) and quote tweets (Blue) of Trump’s tweet. The number of quote tweets spikes at the time Twitter took action and removed the ability to retweet (represented by the vertical dotted line). The line of quote tweets then decreases in what seems to be alignment with the original but no longer continuing retweet graph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598542540962-CG8QKE83NT0XFLPU3OIH/figure6 Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action - Figure 6: a quote tweet accusing Twitter of censorship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598541931058-QHLW52VCNGN4NS5D2T2C/Figure+7+.png Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Figure 7: The graph above displays the volume per-minute of retweets (Black), quote tweets (Blue), and retweets of quote tweets (Red) of Trump’s tweet. The number of retweets of quote tweets rises steadily for about three hours, and then spikes at 15:14 UTC before falling off sharply. Eventually it falls to about the level of the quote tweets, suggesting a rate of about one retweet per quote tweet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598541646815-ESSR9J28KJM7OXAGUDRM/Figure3-retweet-disabled.png Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Figure 3: The graph of retweets begins with Trump’s post at 11:25 UTC. The vertical dotted line represents the time in which Twitter’s action went into effect. The analysis of Trump’s tweets are done in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is 4 hours ahead of Eastern Time and 7 hours ahead of Pacific Time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598542615243-91RMWX5UYZ0586VW46E8/figure8 Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Figure 8: A screenshot of a quote tweet from George Conway, founder of the Lincoln Project, advocated for Twitter to take action on Trump’s tweet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598542476316-VTJ685JBHI7LQ1IYSIM4/figure5.png Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Figure 5: a quote tweet critical of Trump’s original tweet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598541242217-I9SR0O0ZPE5MCOLF1XID/figure2-trump-tweet-08232020.png Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Figure 2: A screenshot of what Trump’s tweet looks like on most browsers. Some Twitter clients such as TweetDeck displayed the tweet without the notice. More detail on this discrepancy can be found here. When users click “view” the original text appears while the notice is still visible so the user knows the tweet’s content violates Twitter’s policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1598542014011-BV8YRPY48DS4LQIOA1JB/Table+1.png Election 2020 - Examining Twitter’s policy against election-related misinformation in action Table 1: Trump’s tweet is analyzed across the EIP’s 4 categories to provide a deeper look into the specific ways the tweet calls the integrity of the election into question. This breakdown also provides insight into how Twitter applied its policies to the claims in the tweet. The highlighted red box is the claim that Twitter took action on as a violation of its policies. https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/announcing-the-eip monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/category/Rapid+Response monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/category/Policy+Analysis monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/category/News monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/category/Election+2020 monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/tag/news monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/tag/weekly+update monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/tag/2020 monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/blog daily 0.75 2023-01-10 https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/maricopa-county-arizona-voting-misinformation monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/9ee98fbe-3a78-420f-93cf-0c845a26d23d/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Printer_Figure1.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 1: A plot showing the tweets per minute related to the printer malfunctions in Maricopa County. After Tyler Bowyer tweeted about the issue, attention to this topic increased dramatically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/fe679519-f35e-4cc9-a941-2f2bf3eb1059/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Anecdotal_Evidence_2.jpg Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figures 2 and 3: Example tweets of users sharing personal experiences attempting to vote, as evidence of election administration problems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/2b9ff4ec-ebe9-43cd-a8c3-5de2c4662026/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Charlie_Kirk_Livestream.jpg Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 4: A screenshot of the Charlie Kirk Show, which has a line along the bottom asking people to email his show. In the live stream, Charlie Kirk asked people to send him what their experience in Arizona was, which would constitute similar evidence-gathering behaviors akin to what we were seeing Twitter accounts doing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/0ea0b702-d6f0-49a2-afa1-ac5bd203f7ea/EIP2022_Maricopa_Courthouse.jpg Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Photo above: The old Maricopa County Courthouse in downtown Phoenix. Photo by Bikesharedue via Flickr (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/c2ada17b-57fb-4d76-acfd-941085bc1752/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Anecdotal_Evidence.jpg Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/10795d96-e13d-484f-94c9-76d950be8f19/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Catturd_Annotated_Tweet.jpg Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 9: A screenshot of one of the most highly retweeted Tweets sharing the official Maricopa.vote website https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/4cded408-11bb-4b56-9fca-0ab747af0d13/EIP2022_Maricoa_Misinfo_NewsMax_IG.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 10: A screenshot of a NewsMax Instagram post depicting a photo and quote by Kari Lake about her belief her election victory is inevitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/31c0319a-1eb7-47dc-aaf0-c92559e6ba38/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Table1.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Table 1: The most retweeted Twitter accounts involved in the discussion of tabulator errors in Arizona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/53ef6abf-8485-4031-bb8c-38a5c6dab9b5/EIP2022_Mariciopa_Misinfo_Kari_Lake_Press_Conference.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 7: A screenshot from Fox News of Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, holding a press conference outside a voting center in Phoenix following the casting of her vote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/b68dbae9-99c4-4024-8daa-59947237d075/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Trump_TruthSocial.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 8: A screenshot of a Truth Social post from former president Donald Trump which claims that the machine errors and delays in election administration are deliberate to allow an unspecified group of people to steal the election. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/ee4b6022-164b-4d56-9903-5d02c61d5dd0/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Table2.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Table 2: The most shared domains linked in tweets about Arizona tabulator errors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/576d74fb-121d-4a30-9aee-83ad2f51a9e5/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_Box_3_Cumulative_Annotated_Graph.jpg Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 6: A cumulative plot showing the spread of narratives related to “Box 3” and taking votes “downtown.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/6e940dda-2f66-457f-83a5-0c4dbddaedb0/EIP2022_Maricopa_Misinfo_KelliWard_Twitter.png Blog - Missteps, Mistakes, and Misinformation About Maricopa County - Make it stand out Figure 5: Retweet of Maricopa County Recorder’s Office by Arizona GOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/potentially-misleading-data-visualizations-lindell monthly 0.5 2022-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/0e7a6c87-666b-4e09-8d21-badee09c21dc/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Figure3.jpg.png Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figure 3. Screen capture of the livestream that was later posted to Rumble. In the bottom-left corner of the visualization, a commentator is using their cursor to point out Fetterman’s purported initial lead at approx. 130,000 votes compared to Oz at approx. 22,000. Captured on November 8, 2022, from the livestream video on frankspeech.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/bd5935e9-4619-44e0-926d-8a7489ad56c3/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Figure2.jpg Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figure 2. A screen capture of a TikTok post [7] that appears to originate from Truth Social. The post by “@mikelindell” (inset) claims that an unmentioned group “are currently stealing Herschel Walkers race with the machines!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/01fe660c-3786-43eb-b79a-1d5093d8e92d/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Figure4.jpg.png Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figure 4: Screen capture of the livestream from frankspeech.com. Lindell directs viewers to the graph (inset), and describes patterns that he observes as a supposed real-time vote count is updated. Captured on November 8, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/41f29b4a-fc8a-4009-9381-e4edcf0478d0/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Combined_Figure7-8.png Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figures 7 and 8: Examples of simplified versions of the “F curve” which were used as memes to allege election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and in the 2022 midterms. Obtained via Google search for “F curve election.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/76ea7912-6b62-463e-a3aa-0bb45efe7881/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Figure1.jpg.png Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figure 1: A vote count visualization that we found on Telegram. It appears visually similar to those that Lindell used in his livestream. The visualization is purportedly of election results from Michigan’s District 7 House race, featuring Democrat Elissa Slotkin and Republican Tom Barrett. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/c62bef44-1da9-4dff-b111-24966a8980be/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Figure6.jpg.png Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figure 6: Screen capture of a post shared to Telegram by “The Lone Racoon” with 2,000 views [9]. Like Figure 1, this appears to be similar to the visualizations that Lindell and colleagues use in the livestream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/41f967fa-6972-4e34-bbac-76b02d543bd8/EIP2022_Misleading_Dataviz_Figure5.jpg.png Blog - How Real-Time Visualizations of Vote Count ‘Spikes’ Can Lead to Unfounded Allegations of Election Fraud - Make it stand out Figure 5: At 8:54 p.m. on November 8, 2022, Lindell posted on Truth Social stating “Million vote spike and the only explanation is corrupt electronic voting machines. Watch now for more Real Time Crime [...].” The screenshot appears to be directly from his livestream occurring at the same time. In the livestream, Lindell directed viewers to the graph (inset), and describes patterns that he observes in the supposed real-time vote count. Captured on November 8, 2022. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/conspiracy-theories-ballot-mules-voter-intimidation monthly 0.5 2022-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/61f180fb-dcfc-4237-a4c3-785765eec4ef/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Domain_Table_1.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/7519855b-b3b9-4033-9436-d8f01b81511a/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Kari_Lake_Screengrag.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/0c5f2c4e-03f9-40ca-84b0-0d5b31f7f0a5/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Period_1_Graph.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Figure 1: A temporal graph showing the volume of tweets per hour related to drop box monitoring during Time Period 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/2f95697c-37bb-4c4b-862c-a8a01e6d0e1b/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_TrumperMel_WashingtonPost.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out A screenshot of TrumperMel’s post responding to The Washington Post article. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/2bd9f36d-6a09-47bc-b5ee-eb850fca38cc/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Telegram_War_Room.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Example of Telegram post sharing Jennings’ message on an appearance on War Room. As of November 2, this post was viewed 24.8K times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1ee7db55-7c11-4593-88c5-1db8e5443117/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimindation_Clean_Elections_usa.jpg Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Screenshot of the homepage for Clean Elections USA, one of the organizations which is attempting to organize ballot box watch parties based off of unsubstantiated rumors of illegal ballots being dropped into ballot dropboxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/b38db78a-1d70-446f-bdb8-101c0957a52f/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_TrumperMel_Trump_Retruth.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out TrumperMel’s post on Truth Social on October 17 was re-truthed by Donald Trump. The post calls “Arizona patriots” to immediate action at ballot drop boxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/db3a8876-d113-45d2-bbe0-480f30c4d8b0/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Telegram_Evidence_Truth_Social.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Telegram channel promoting “evidence” of election fraud via TruthSocial screenshot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/912f7d0f-89e4-45f2-82df-b49da220ab02/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimindation_Patriot_gGames.jpg Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out A post on Truth Social on October 22 encouraging users to watch ballot boxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/bfbcc654-4314-438e-9748-7ee3180a5a6c/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Period_2_Graph.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Figure 2: A temporal graph showing the volume of tweets per hour related to drop box monitoring during Time Period 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/b9e100b7-7f94-439d-a21f-77782b3725d4/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Domain_Table_2.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/34805034-9509-4ae7-8b9e-895c9d25ba3c/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_TrumperMel_October_16_Truth_Social.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out TrumperMel’s post on Truth Social on October 16. The post amplifies perceived evidence of malfeasance, sowing doubt about a covered license plate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/4811d6e3-f309-4e2f-93c1-19266cf55390/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_Jennings_War_Room.png Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Screenshot of one of Jennings’ appearances on War Room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/04f0c77b-2da8-4bd9-9c8d-4cfbf2e113a6/EIP2022_Ballot_Box_Intimidation_TrumperMel_Truth_Social.jpg Blog - Misinformed Monitors: How Conspiracy Theories Surrounding “Ballot Mules” Led to Accusations of Voter Intimidation - Make it stand out Clean Elections USA flyer shared by TrumperMel on Truth Social repeatedly. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/2022-election-voter-fraud-influencers-social-media monthly 0.5 2022-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/a3cd5c46-d60e-4091-8a11-f25495fc04ce/EIP2022_2022_Ecosystem_MultiPlatform_Content_Hosting.png Blog - Beyond Twitter: The Election 2022 Social Media Ecosystem - Make it stand out Project Veritas and the Gateway Pundit, two accounts suspended on Twitter, have their video content and news content shared by other Twitter users. We have obscured the screenshots as we have not verified the claims made in these posts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/9bb0ab61-d0ef-4542-8970-f52da0419816/EIP2022_2022_Ecosystem_Cross_Platform_Presence.png Blog - Beyond Twitter: The Election 2022 Social Media Ecosystem - Make it stand out A visualization of how many voter fraud influencers are active on each platform. Black squares represent users who are currently posting on this platform. Gray squares represent users who have an account, but have not posted since September 1, 2022. Empty squares represent users with no account we were able to verify on this platform. We could not verify the last post date for many websites, and have marked them all as black squares in this visualization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/94650dfc-728e-4829-bc4f-6b2d30dd8e3c/EIP2022_2022_Ecosystem_Multiplatform_FollowerGraph.png Blog - Beyond Twitter: The Election 2022 Social Media Ecosystem - Make it stand out The follower counts of different influencers by platform in our dataset. Lines in the bar plots separate the follower counts of different voter fraud influencers. TikTok is left out due to lack of data. Note that some followers may not be active, or may not be authentic users. Specifically, Parler is said to have far fewer active users than other alternative social media platforms, despite the follower totals shown on this graph. Note also that this data describes influencers we identified via Twitter, who naturally may have bigger platforms on Twitter than other platforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/5910b422-bfaa-4612-b630-3cf8b3345b6b/EIP2022_2022_Ecosystem_Multiplatform_Podcasts.png Blog - Beyond Twitter: The Election 2022 Social Media Ecosystem - Make it stand out As of November 3, 2022, six Twitter-based voter fraud influencers from 2020 have podcasts that appear in Apple Podcasts “Top 100 Podcasts in Politics.” Three are highlighted in yellow in this screenshot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1db23233-ca7e-47a1-b2ba-e25ca3fec375/EIP2022_2022_Ecosystem_MultiPlatform_Screenshots.png Blog - Beyond Twitter: The Election 2022 Social Media Ecosystem - Make it stand out Examples of content screenshotting from one platform to another. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/what-to-expect-2022-midterm-election-rumors-narratives monthly 0.5 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/9054a3f5-1da4-4f4e-8c6a-21cbde36a71d/EIP2022_What_To_Expect.jpg Blog - Rumors, Conspiracy Theories, and Unsubstantiated Claims About Voting: What to Expect on and After Election Day 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1d3c96fb-548e-40fc-9471-98d62473392e/EIP2022_What_To_Expect_2020_Predictions.png Blog - Rumors, Conspiracy Theories, and Unsubstantiated Claims About Voting: What to Expect on and After Election Day 2022 - Make it stand out A snippet from “Uncertainty and Misinformation: What to Expect on Election Night and Days After,” October 26, 2020. We also predicted other trends as well, such as the use of affidavits and legal maneuvers to generate press coverage of allegations and launder claims into the general discourse. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/inauthentic-foreign-networks monthly 0.5 2022-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/0b0ed625-176e-4498-9ebf-26a9cb808a8e/Reddit+posts.png Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out A screenshot of posts from the Reddit account r/10votes. Screenshot captured October 31, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/133d5a00-5130-4675-891a-5c2280836ea1/1487034372398137345-FKMB3--XIAE9o4s.jpg Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out A meme shared by the 10Votes81 account shows senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) with “GOP” covering their mouths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/5b3a688b-42c0-4b98-bc0b-2033f438f0f5/mena2-trump-cartoon.png Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out A meme shared in the MENA2 dataset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/9cfbfa93-0d3f-410e-a911-cef35394fedb/mena2-trump-puddle.png Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out A meme shared in the MENA2 dataset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/26268053-fc90-40f8-958d-85380a1c9808/10votes-student-debt.png Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out A meme advocating for a progressive policy; this format was reused for a variety of issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/648e1e4a-ae7c-4763-84a7-8d5b7f9fd33e/10votes-deliverforvotingrights.jpg Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out 10votes81 Twitter content promoting a Deliver for Voting Rights event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/392b4771-e75e-4a9f-94c0-ef76f2ec495b/Screen+Shot+2022-11-01+at+9.17.36+AM.png Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out An article published on evenpolitics.com (left) and the original source of the article published by the Guardian (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/dce4c71e-46be-4fd1-96a7-c4910375485d/Screen+Shot+2022-10-31+at+7.18.22+PM.png Blog - Assessing Inauthentic Networks Commenting on the US Midterms - Make it stand out A Linktree page for @10Votes links out to already-suspended Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts. At the time of this analysis, a linked TikTok page and Reddit account were still active. Screenshots taken October 31, 2022. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/election-vulnerability-disclosure-conspiratorial-narratives-telegram monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/43e7eab9-63e1-4fd7-beb2-33824e521069/EIP2022_Dominion_Vulnerability_Gateway_Pundit_Telegram.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out (https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/19469) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/c4d01139-e1dd-4935-b919-29377df4ee60/EIP2022_Dominion_Vulnerability_Figure1.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out Figure 1: This graph is a cumulative plot of tweets mentioning terms related to Dominion vulnerability disclosure. The x-axis represents the time of each tweet in UTC time, while the y-axis represents the total number of posts collected up to that point in time. Points are colored by the type of tweet they represent and are sized by the number of followers of the posting account. Annotations show the most influential tweets that helped drive the spread of the Fig.1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/9b705fc9-6adc-44b9-aa99-eaad3b65d29b/EIP2022_Dominion_Vulnerability_Powell_Telegram.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out Screenshot of share of the National Pulse article through a forward, as seen in the Telegram web interface. The view tally here is specific to the forward; the underlying post has more views. (https://t.me/SidneyPowell/4380) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/5ffb62e5-0130-4892-8207-7d40738f8531/EIP2022_Dominion_Vulnerability_Kamaro_Post.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/622f3609-3a39-4e42-872d-18fadaceee37/EIP2022_Dominion_Vulnerability_Moseder_Telegram.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out Telegram post by the Nic Moseder channel, sharing a Rumble video and an alternative theory about the flaw. (https://t.me/WILFMoseder/9350) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/ab0b7701-7e71-487a-8ec5-c678098ec787/EIP2022_Dominion_Vulnerability_Figure2.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out Figure 2: This graph shows the number of posts on public Facebook groups, pages, and verified profiles sharing select URLs associated with the Halderman discussion. Overall sharing of URLs appears low. The most number of posts in our selected sample were around the original NationalPulse article, but links to Rumble and Substack that concerned the Halderman disclosure also featured highly in discussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/3507f640-e283-4ccc-bddd-a1bcb471d5c5/EIP2022_Disclosure_Discourse_Telegram.png Blog - Election Vulnerability Disclosure Becomes Fodder for Dueling Conspiratorial Narratives on Telegram - Make it stand out Figure 3: Above is a pie chart showing the total number of views from our select sample of Telegram posts discussing the disclosure. Out of our limited sample, National Pulse journalist Raheem Kassam’s post received the highest number of views (over 250,000 views and over two thousand shares (not all of them in public groups) at the time of writing). https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/2022-platform-policy-analysis monthly 0.5 2024-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/2da733b8-2d0b-4685-8c20-93d04ad282e2/fphhI-key-for-comparative-analysis.png Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/380b87fe-4318-47e2-b557-8c896e186ecf/BR0H9-facebook+%282%29.png Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/b7476924-ca65-47e4-a5d6-00b2893517a9/EIP2022_Chicago_Cook_Ballot_Drop_Box_2020.jpg Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Photo above: Ballot drop boxes in Chicago from the 2020 U.S. elections by Seth Anderson via Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/62f69739-ff22-42f1-886a-657e07f334f2/p6Onq-comparative-analysis-of-platforms-s-election-related-policies.png Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/a12e4d3e-d524-417c-9ac3-ae3a911c3abf/WS45I-youtube.png Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/b87f81c1-6b43-4fa5-848c-6f26d2ca8e86/mPlmP-twitter.png Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/70e4f3e5-ef70-4058-a430-0bbbf0faa66b/o8601-tiktok.png Blog - Platform Policy Analysis 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/understanding-unsubstantiated-allegations-election-administration-mistakes monthly 0.5 2022-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/390f6d46-efa5-4492-aa4d-b183e1172727/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Tweet1.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 1: A screenshot of an unverified influencer’s post about the Colorado postcard incident, which was the first post about this incident to gain major traction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/14205cec-f868-482b-ba75-f91c890387b7/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Tweet8.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 8: A tweet from Kari Lake which implies that the Pinal County incident was due to intentional actions by her opponent, Katie Hobbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/183074dc-2e12-43c8-a1dc-dbff1d90ea61/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Tweet2.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 2: A screenshot of a Twitter post about the Colorado postcard incident from author and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/7b14dced-44d6-438e-8107-96e241f35afa/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Telegram.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 5: A screenshot of a Telegram message by former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn linking to a Gateway Pundit article about the Colorado postcard incident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/5b1a08d6-9590-424d-bdd0-f4af1e3a1b8b/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Tweet3.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 3: A screenshot of a post about the Colorado postcard incident made by Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/569fd5ac-4c74-4bbd-851c-332fbb6c910d/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Lead_Image.jpg Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Photo composite (from left): The Denver, Colorado skyline by bikesharedude via Flickr / Public Domain; The Pinal County Courthouse in Florence, Arizona by Larry & Teddy Page via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/7bf8b610-a75c-4260-b96b-02bbca9d12c3/EIP2022_Implying__Pinal_County_Ballots.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Figure 2: This graph shows a cumulative plot of tweets mentioning terms related to the Arizona incident in its time of original spread, in August. The x-axis represents the time of each included post in the UTC time zone, and the y-axis references the total number of collected posts about this topic up to that point. Points are colored and shaped based on what kind of tweet is represented, and are sized by the amount of engagement (retweets, replies, and quotes) that each post received. The graph is then annotated with arrows pointing to influential posts which helped to drive the spread of this incident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/a1f94113-f5dd-4970-af18-5e11e34eb6bb/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_TS1.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 4: A screenshot of a Truth Social post made by former President Donald Trump about the Colorado postcard incident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/2d24d599-5da0-4820-8dd0-2b0fc802aef6/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Figure1.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Figure 1: This graph shows a cumulative plot of tweets mentioning terms related to the Colorado incident. The x-axis represents the time of each included post in the UTC time zone, and the y-axis references the total number of collected posts about this topic up to that point. Points are colored and shaped based on what kind of tweet is represented, and are sized by the amount of engagement (retweets, replies, and quotes) that each post received. The graph is then annotated with arrows pointing to influential posts which helped to drive the spread of this incident, and the original post from the CPR Affiliate reporter about this incident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/472db8d8-3012-4d6b-b6ee-6aa5f4ec798b/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Table1.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Table 1: Results of qualitative coding the Twitter replies to two Tweets insinuating that mistakes within the voting process were intentional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/f60e0a56-8567-415a-9b91-469686a12a12/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Tweet6.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 6: A tweet on August 4 from Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, blaming her opponent Katie Hobbs for the Pinal County ballots incident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/03ac78f0-a810-4123-ba67-379b12af30a8/EIP2022_Implying_Intentionality_Tweet7.png Blog - Implying Intentionality: Understanding Unsubstantiated Allegations Around Election Administration Mistakes - Make it stand out Image 7: A tweet from Tyler Bowyer placing blame for the Pinal County ballots incident with Katie Hobbs’ office. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/kent-county-michigan-poll-worker-arrest-voting-technology monthly 0.5 2022-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/52d742c5-9698-48d4-9fd5-24b8e194cae9/EIP2022_Kent_County_Gaines_Township_Temporal_Graph.png Blog - Confusion Over Election Technology Contributes to Rumors and False Claims - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/06e4a1e1-667d-44aa-959d-976514781f06/EIP2022_Kent_County_Vote_Fraud_Replies.png Blog - Confusion Over Election Technology Contributes to Rumors and False Claims - Make it stand out Table 2: Frequency of terms “voter fraud” and “election fraud” in replies to top retweeted tweets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/a0ef62e9-a9bc-40e8-8ea9-f1c8dea4ea4e/EIP2022_Kent_County_Gaines_Township_Tweets.png Blog - Confusion Over Election Technology Contributes to Rumors and False Claims - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/2d3a51d1-8b33-4da7-8113-1d72f4d12e70/EIP_2022_Kent_County_Michigan_Gaines_Township.jpg Blog - Confusion Over Election Technology Contributes to Rumors and False Claims - Make it stand out Photo above: The Gaines Charter Township Offices near Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Kent County. (Photo by the Election Integrity Partnership) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/e91ddeb5-5f46-4815-a1d2-5efe774e2f8e/EIP2022_Kent_County_Top_5_Retweeted.png Blog - Confusion Over Election Technology Contributes to Rumors and False Claims - Make it stand out Table 1: Top five most retweeted posts on the arrest of a Republican poll worker in Kent County, Michigan. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/louis-dejoy-postal-service-rumors-sabotage monthly 0.5 2022-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/8df04236-59ba-487a-8164-d6624e95623c/EIP2022_USPS_Trucks.jpg Blog - The DeJoy Case: Criticism of Poor Performance, Rumors of ‘Sabotage’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/6e4274c7-599e-41d0-a3d3-5d3940d5afab/EIP2022_DeJoy_Temporal_Graph.png Blog - The DeJoy Case: Criticism of Poor Performance, Rumors of ‘Sabotage’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/afcce82c-4de7-4e3b-9253-00a1aa6c551c/EIP2022_Cheri_Jacobus_Tweet.png Blog - The DeJoy Case: Criticism of Poor Performance, Rumors of ‘Sabotage’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/8058cc05-61d3-4bbc-ae45-aa4ff3bb2917/EIP2022_CREW_Tweet.png Blog - The DeJoy Case: Criticism of Poor Performance, Rumors of ‘Sabotage’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/436faf2b-5d29-4279-966a-c1d61d080e6a/EIP2022_Bob_Casey_FB_Post.png Blog - The DeJoy Case: Criticism of Poor Performance, Rumors of ‘Sabotage’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/non-citizen-voting-conspiracy-theory monthly 0.5 2023-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/fc7398ca-7953-4d76-b7fb-45c910147b0e/NY_City_Hall_Arizona_Capitol_composite.jpg Blog - Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting - Make it stand out Above (from left): New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan and the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix. (Photos by Joseph / Flickr via CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 and David Grant / Flickr via CC BY-NC 2.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/e35527f0-3cca-4ad9-a280-3afb5459fcd3/EIP2022_AZ_DOJ_Figure3.png Blog - Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting - Make it stand out Figure 3: Cumulative number of tweets, retweets, and replies surrounding the Arizona proof of citizenship law and subsequent DOJ lawsuit. Each shape is a related tweet, sized relative to the number of followers of the account. Only accounts with very high follower counts appear in the graph. For example, @charliekirk11 has more than 1.7M followers. However, smaller accounts do contribute to rise along the y axis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/564636e7-50a3-4b79-ae57-24aaaa6eec57/EIP2022_NYC_Event_Figure1.png Blog - Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting - Make it stand out Figure 1: A temporal graph showing the number of tweets per hour related to the NYC Event surrounding the Our City, Our Vote bill becoming law on January 8, 2022. The numbers map to the phases described below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/7e937d0e-f29c-4285-a09c-9eb9324ece3e/EIP2022_AZ_DOJ_Figure2.png Blog - Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting - Make it stand out Figure 2: A temporal graph showing the volume of tweets per hour related to the AZ DOJ lawsuit event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/9acb114b-c573-48f7-9bc4-98e12044cc3d/EIP2022_NYC_Narratives_Table1.png Blog - Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting - Make it stand out Table 1: Most tweeted domains for NYC Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/dc32034c-5059-43aa-8c69-7629192c10c0/EIP2022_AZ_Narratives_Table2.png Blog - Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting - Make it stand out Table 2: Most tweeted domains for the DOJ AZ Event https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/a-statement-from-the-election-integrity-partnership monthly 0.5 2022-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/d1b2258b-71c9-4e98-8ebb-4f465605b541/EIP2020_Final_Report_Scope_Table.png Blog - A Statement from the Election Integrity Partnership - Make it stand out A grid showing the four categories of election disinformation in scope for the EIP, from The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (stanford.edu) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/571b7b69-1f2b-4957-b299-12bc9271d2d4/Screenshot+2022-10-05+091130.png Blog - A Statement from the Election Integrity Partnership - Make it stand out A screenshot of a ticket reporting the Sharpiegate misinformation to several platforms, from The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (stanford.edu) https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/rumors-capacity-online-virality-factors monthly 0.5 2022-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/d07b73c5-172b-4781-ac2c-423213dde45e/rumor_railcar.jpg Blog - 10 Factors That Shape a Rumor’s Capacity for Online Virality - Make it stand out Photo above: A rail car with “Rumor” graffiti by Revise Design / Flickr via CC-BY-SA-2.0. https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/about-eip-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-08-01 https://www.eipartnership.net/blog/category/News monthly 0.5 https://www.eipartnership.net/about-2020 daily 0.75 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1595781968315-O4890IOKVAG905O6LU0C/mask.jpg Election Integrity Partnership https://www.eipartnership.net/election-day-live daily 0.75 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604508665846-T2J1KR5NMXHM745PJM1Q/unnamed.jpg Election Day Live Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604606880198-FWID3UBL04Y7B9RCYNI0/unnamed+%289%29.png Election Day Live Updates - Media Largely Frames Trump’s Victory Declaration as False in Headlines The way the media frames misinformation plays a role in how the public interprets, remembers and ultimately believes the information. After President Donald Trump claimed victory during a press conference early this morning, media outlets faced the challenge of how to report it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604518989570-E3ULJMHJJ3SVRWP826VY/image+%281%29.png Election Day Live Updates Use of the hashtag #StopTheSteal” and the phrase “Fix is In” on Twitter over the last 18 hours. #StopTheSteal grew dramatically as it was shared by influential twitter users. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604448359593-A3DEETQBRYG3WI1OJMRB/norpothlabeled.png Election Day Live Updates - Weaponizing projections as tools of election delegitimization Forecasting elections is notoriously difficult. In 2016, several models expressed an all but certain Clinton victory. FiveThirtyEight was an exception among the more established forecasters, giving Trump a seemingly-generous 30%. In the wake of the 2016 election, Modellers and pollsters alike pointed fingers, and there has been no shortage of explanations for what went wrong uncovered through post-mortems. Of the many credible explanations, there was no evidence that voter fraud or illegal electoral misconduct was to blame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604693834536-4YYZIM7HJTNYO7EEOJG5/new_table.jpg Election Day Live Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604682707156-AR9K6N52FBQ6R6I0NPZI/mika-baumeister-Wpnoqo2plFA-unsplash.jpg Election Day Live Updates - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results Armchair investigators during the election have already begun to argue that too many of the submitted vote totals begin with larger single digit numbers (7 or 8 for example), which is being spun as evidence of voter fraud. We caution against this conclusion. Having the distribution of leading digits stray from the expected percentages predicted by Benford’s Law can happen by chance, though it is more common when the law’s assumptions are violated, as they often are with vote tallies. Benford’s Law, and other math-based inquiries, can be used to detect voter fraud, but the vast majority of these violations are not conclusive evidence of fraud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388942345-GJT6VOXWWRJFNJ60XATW/michael-parulava-L4jrg4c7928-unsplash.jpg Election Day Live Updates - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Russian influence operations and state-backed outlets have been amplifying claims of election fraud, vote rigging and Big Tech interference ahead of the U.S. presidential election. These efforts do not appear to have gained substantial traction, but they suggest a focus on events that serve to de-legitimize the process and outcome, especially in the event of a Democratic victory, that resembles the behavior of Russian influence operations in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604436646951-OJG5FJ7MQITTLHQB7157/will+chamberlain.png Election Day Live Updates Video showing a poll watcher being denied entrance to a Philadelphia polling site with over 300 million impressions on Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604436766703-JEZAZIJW92HT9NLIW8NS/NE+PA+.png Election Day Live Updates False claims of electioneering at polling stations were amplified as part of this narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604448359593-A3DEETQBRYG3WI1OJMRB/norpothlabeled.png Election Day Live Updates - Weaponizing projections as tools of election delegitimization Forecasting elections is notoriously difficult. In 2016, several models expressed an all but certain Clinton victory. FiveThirtyEight was an exception among the more established forecasters, giving Trump a seemingly-generous 30%. In the wake of the 2016 election, Modellers and pollsters alike pointed fingers, and there has been no shortage of explanations for what went wrong uncovered through post-mortems. Of the many credible explanations, there was no evidence that voter fraud or illegal electoral misconduct was to blame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604388942345-GJT6VOXWWRJFNJ60XATW/michael-parulava-L4jrg4c7928-unsplash.jpg Election Day Live Updates - Russian Narratives on Election Fraud Russian influence operations and state-backed outlets have been amplifying claims of election fraud, vote rigging and Big Tech interference ahead of the U.S. presidential election. These efforts do not appear to have gained substantial traction, but they suggest a focus on events that serve to de-legitimize the process and outcome, especially in the event of a Democratic victory, that resembles the behavior of Russian influence operations in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604508665846-T2J1KR5NMXHM745PJM1Q/unnamed.jpg Election Day Live Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604518989570-E3ULJMHJJ3SVRWP826VY/image+%281%29.png Election Day Live Updates Use of the hashtag #StopTheSteal” and the phrase “Fix is In” on Twitter over the last 18 hours. #StopTheSteal grew dramatically as it was shared by influential twitter users. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604436646951-OJG5FJ7MQITTLHQB7157/will+chamberlain.png Election Day Live Updates Video showing a poll watcher being denied entrance to a Philadelphia polling site with over 300 million impressions on Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604682707156-AR9K6N52FBQ6R6I0NPZI/mika-baumeister-Wpnoqo2plFA-unsplash.jpg Election Day Live Updates - Vote Data Patterns used to Delegitimize the Election Results Armchair investigators during the election have already begun to argue that too many of the submitted vote totals begin with larger single digit numbers (7 or 8 for example), which is being spun as evidence of voter fraud. We caution against this conclusion. Having the distribution of leading digits stray from the expected percentages predicted by Benford’s Law can happen by chance, though it is more common when the law’s assumptions are violated, as they often are with vote tallies. Benford’s Law, and other math-based inquiries, can be used to detect voter fraud, but the vast majority of these violations are not conclusive evidence of fraud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604436766703-JEZAZIJW92HT9NLIW8NS/NE+PA+.png Election Day Live Updates False claims of electioneering at polling stations were amplified as part of this narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1604606880198-FWID3UBL04Y7B9RCYNI0/unnamed+%289%29.png Election Day Live Updates - Media Largely Frames Trump’s Victory Declaration as False in Headlines The way the media frames misinformation plays a role in how the public interprets, remembers and ultimately believes the information. After President Donald Trump claimed victory during a press conference early this morning, media outlets faced the challenge of how to report it. https://www.eipartnership.net/report daily 0.75 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1614286212010-PK7AFFMA4DLWPMYWEET8/Screen+Shot+2021-02-25+at+12.49.41+PM.png Final Report 2020 - The Final Report. The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election. https://www.eipartnership.net/about daily 1.0 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/d37bf863-015b-49f4-b86e-3ab12230c98f/unsplash-image-ls8Kc0P9hAA.jpg Election Integrity Partnership (Copy) https://www.eipartnership.net/weekly-reports-2022 daily 0.75 2022-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f19d72fae0908591b9feccb/1656448134568-0XTTVDIKMRPKYRX1Z6GJ/SIO-ElectionLogo-2022-01.png Weekly Reports 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.