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.1 min read·Mar 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…2 min read·Mar 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…2 min read·Feb 28, 2021--1--1
Mike CaulfieldPull Correction and the Problem of AmplificationThere’s a broad debate in the reporting community about the dynamics of amplification.2 min read·Feb 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…8 min read·Oct 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…10 min read·Oct 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…8 min read·Oct 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…2 min read·Aug 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…6 min read·Jan 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.3 min read·Jan 21, 2020----