Tag: USA

HOW TO MAINTAIN INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

01.05.2020 As the world faces its worse pandemic in over a century, there is little doubt where the virus originated and how it spread to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, it has become the subject of a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign,...

SOCIAL MEDIA, DISINFORMATION AND ELECTORAL INTEGRITY

28.09.2019 The appearance of various types of disinformation and their threat to the integrity of elections have become gradually an issue of global concern. There is a need to have a better definition of problems and terms, and a deeper understanding of the challenge...

REMEMBERING BOB NORRIS

23.08.2018 15 August 2018 was not a very good day. We learned that Bob Norris passed away. Bob worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Slovakia and together with Lisa McLean, Rob Benjamin, Pat Merloe, and others helped activists to observe the 1998...

INTERVIEW WITH DR. BEATA MARTIN-ROZUMILOWICZ ON THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DURING ELECTIONS

19.12.2017 MEMO 98: How do you see the new emerging trends particularly related to the role of social media in elections? Do you see it as a problem that needs to be addressed?   Dr. Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz: I think in a number of recent elections,...

MEMO 98 AT THE DIGITAL DISINFORMATION FORUM AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

28.06.2017 International media coverage of “fake news” in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has dramatically increased international attention on the role of digital disinformation in elections. While attention has focused on the influence of Russia...