Data for Democracy

Spot a Bot: Identifying Automation and Disinformation on Social Media

Civic Data Wrangling: in R and on data.world

Originally posted on RViews.

One of the most valuable things I have learned working on Data for Democracy’s Medicare drug spending project has been the value of collaborative tools. It has been my first in-depth experience…

#MacronLeaks — how disinformation spreads

It’s the combination of catalyst accounts and an army of signal boosters ― a number of which are bots ― that allows disinformation to spread quickly.

La démocratie piratée

Une campagne de désinformation de grande ampleur et Pro-Le Pen a frappé Twitter, 4chan, et les médias traditionnels

Trump, Russia, Bots, and Breitbart: tl;dr edition

There’s not a single conspiracy behind it all. There are several conspiracies that, for a time at least, have overlapping interests.

Democracy Hacked

A Massive, Pro-Le Pen Disinformation Campaign Hits Twitter, 4chan, and the Mainstream Media

Continued Bot Infiltration of Trump’s Facebook Pages

Researched and written by C.E. Carey

This past Thursday, Facebook released a white paper which “does not contradict” the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that its platform was used to carry out influence…

Preserve Endangered Data on data.world

A few days ago, an alleged alert on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website…

The business of hate media

How Google and Facebook make online harassment and disinformation both possible and profitable