Hot Topics in Misinformation: Election 2020, COVID 19, and More
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Summary of concrete findings and tools: investigators identify at least 12 foreign information operations but find most viral election harm comes from domestic actors, with a small handful of repeat offenders producing outsized volume; the Election Integrity Partnership scales analysis with a 30-student team and cross-platform tracking is still human‑intensive. Built systems include Squint for rapid crowd reporting, Graphika network mapping, and MITRE’s CLIO/SPICE for campaign analysis; detection improves, but organic community spread and lack of a centralized vaccine-response conduit remain blockers.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Social See Something Say Something Program
- 3:36Learnings from Election 2020
- 5:00COVID19 Misinformation
- 7:46Are Misinformation Narratives Similar
- 11:30How Well Are We Fighting Misinformation
- 13:54How Can We Do This Better
- 14:54What Can We Do Better
- 17:35Strategic Response
- 18:37Crowdsourcing
- 19:50Different Audiences
- 21:09Misinformation vs Influence
- 23:35Influence vs Misinformation
- 25:24How to detect influence
- 27:12Next level of technology
- 28:29Narratives and flow
- 29:46Future technological capabilities
- 32:59Closing thoughts
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