Disinformation is polluting democracy
Disinformation campaigns and the future of elections United States citizens are still recovering from the aftermath of the election. KI Design’s media monitoring data shows that 39% of online election sentiment is negative. Voters have experienced sustained disinformation campaigns that have compromised the electoral system and undermining public confidence in democratic processes. Disinformation – false…
5 Questions About Elections and Disinformation
With a US election campaign ramping up, many people around the world are paying attention to the impact of misinformation and disinformation on democracy. Electoral management bodies, including election officials at all levels of government, are looking to social media monitoring to battle election interference through disinformation campaigns. Three types of attacks are commonly seen…
Can disinformation be traced? USelection2020
Political parties in the United States, and the rest of the world, know fake news to be a threat to democratic process. News media often partakes in the conversation about disinformation and voter suppression. All parties consider the culprit to be the opposing party or foreign actors (state or independent). Election management bodies consider disinformation…
MONITORING POLITICAL FINANCING ISSUES ON SOCIAL MEDIA — PART V
Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series How social medial monitoring can help Electoral Management Bodies to ascertain, measure, and validate political spending. How politicians and their supporters invest in political messaging is rapidly changing. For the last few years, the amount of money spent on political advertising on the Internet has been…
KI DESIGN NATIONAL ELECTION SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING PLAYBOOK — PART IV of V
Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series How to monitor social media with AI-based tools during an election campaign Traditional election monitoring is a formalized process in democratic countries, set out in the mandate of the national Electoral Management Body (EMB). As social and digital cultures change, however, EMBs are finding it useful…
MANAGING OPERATIONAL ISSUES DURING AN ELECTION — PART III of V
Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series The advantages of managing election logistical issues through social media. Organizing the logistics of an election is a complex process. It’s a question of scale; the sheer numbers involved – of voters, of polling options and locations, and of election materials – means that things can,…
IDENTIFYING DISINFORMATION — PART II of V
Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series Using AI to track disinformation during an election campaign. How can online disinformation be identified and tracked? KI Design provided social media monitoring solutions for the 2019 Canadian federal election.[1] KI Social is a suite of tools designed to support three main areas of Electoral Management…
Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series
PART I: INTRODUCTION Online interference with elections is a reality of 21st century politics. Social media disinformation campaigns have targeted citizens of democracies across the globe and impacted public perceptions and poll results, often dramatically. Disinformation: False information spread with the intent to deceive. Misinformation: Inaccurate information spread without an intent to deceive. Political campaigns,…