Mike CaulfieldVisible and Hidden ProcessesA genre of misinformation around the 2020 election focused on the idea that fake ballots might be produced and sent in.Mar 13, 2021Mar 13, 2021
Mike CaulfieldWhere “A Republic, not a Democracy” Came FromFrom the pro-segregation book You and Segregation (1955). A reminder of what people are really saying when they say “It’s a Republic, not a…Mar 6, 2021Mar 6, 2021
Mike CaulfieldThe User Is the Group (or, why consumer approaches to social software design produce dysfunctional…This is a simplification, but for years Facebook, Google, and others have for years approached group software as consumer software. Roll…Feb 28, 20211Feb 28, 20211
Mike CaulfieldPull Correction and the Problem of AmplificationThere’s a broad debate in the reporting community about the dynamics of amplification.Feb 27, 2021Feb 27, 2021
Mike CaulfieldinNWP Write NowTrends in Electoral Misinformation: Week ThreeAs we head into the home stretch before our CoLab event, let’s pull the threads together. In week one, we talked about mail dumping…Oct 24, 2020Oct 24, 2020
Mike CaulfieldinNWP Write NowTrends in Electoral Misinformation: Week TwoLast week we talked about mail-dumping narratives, which have driven a lot of the misinformation leading up to the election. This week I…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020
Mike CaulfieldinNWP Write NowTrends in Electoral Misinformation: Week OneSocial media has long had a role in keeping government accountable and calling flaws of the electoral process to light. In previous…Oct 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020
Mike CaulfieldTikTok’s Radicalizing Sorting Hat?One thing you learn on TikTok is users have an almost religious view of the algorithm. This was always true of YouTube creators (see Chris…Aug 18, 2020Aug 18, 2020
Mike CaulfieldTeaching Control-F to Build Resilient Information NetworksIn the misinformation field there’s often a weird dynamic between the short-term and long-term gains folks. Maybe I don’t go to the right…Jan 27, 2020Jan 27, 2020
Mike CaulfieldLittle Lies of Context and Their Big EffectsInteresting example below of the death by a thousand papercuts warping of reality we now endure daily.Jan 21, 2020Jan 21, 2020