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Experts and political figures are sounding the alarm on the spread of election disinformation on social media, putting leading platforms under intense scrutiny in the final days of the presidential race.
Between investigations into leading social media companies to prominent figures voicing concerns about false election claims, the past week saw increased discussion around the topic as some brace for postelection disinformation…
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Researchers at the University of Southern California say they found evidence of thousands of X and Telegram accounts working together to artificially popularize right-wing narratives.
Influence groups coordinate to share specific content in order to create the appearance of widespread grassroots support for a given idea or opinion. Those artificially heightened engagement numbers then tell the social platform’s algorithm to distribute the content even more…
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In the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, coordinated efforts to manipulate online political discourse are already underway, according to a new study from USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI).
Researchers from the USC HUMANS Lab uncovered a network of 34 coordinated accounts exhibiting politically biased behaviour across multiple platforms and websites……
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The 2024 Election Integrity Initiative 