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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Inconsistencies in State-Controlled Media Labeling
Thirty days out from the U.S. presidential election, platform policies intended to identify state-media influence operations are quickly evolving. However, there is a significant gap between platforms’ policy language and actual policy implementation. In order to evolve effectively, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube must fully implement terms of use policies governing how, why, and when labels are appended to foreign state-controlled media accounts, pages, and posts. Because of previous state-controlled media involvement in U.S. elections, it is critical that their capacity to create and spread disinformation is diminished to the fullest extent possible.