The 2020 Election Integrity Partnership
The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) was formed in July 2020 as a coalition of research entities focused on supporting real-time information exchange between the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, and social media platforms.
Our objective was to detect and mitigate the impact of attempts to prevent or deter people from voting or to delegitimize election results. In March 2021 we published our final report. This page displays an archive of the work carried out by the EIP and its partners during the 2020 U.S. election.
The Final Report.
The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election.
Blog archive.
Blog posts and publications during the 2020 election cycle.
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Seeking To Help and Doing Harm: The Case of Well-Intentioned Misinformation
We have identified several instances of apparently well-meaning but misleading content, which typically takes the form of flawed public-service announcements or calls to action. Such content that seeks to help but does harm is best characterized as well-intentioned misinformation: false or misleading information which — if it were not false — would be spread toward constructive ends. This post is motivated by the idea that by describing prototypical cases of well-intentioned misinformation, and by outlining best practices to contain its spread, we might reduce the threat it poses to the upcoming election.