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Kris Shaffer in Data for Democracy

May 5, 2017

Democracy Hacked

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

Lilian H in Data for Democracy

May 1, 2017

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…

Kris Shaffer in Data for Democracy

May 22, 2017

#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.

Kris Shaffer in Data for Democracy

May 8, 2017

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.

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Jennifer T in Data for Democracy

May 31, 2017

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…

Mickael Gaspar in Data for Democracy

May 15, 2017

La démocratie piratée

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

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