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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Foreign vs Domestic: An Examination of Amplification in a Ballot Misinformation Story
This post analyzes a recent case of false information around discarded ballots in order to explore the scope and impact of foreign intervention relative to domestic drivers — an important dynamic to understand, particularly as media coverage often disproportionately focuses on instances of foreign interference, which can unduly elevate the assumed influence of foreign adversaries