… Welcome to the new frontier of campaign tech — a loosely regulated world in which simply downloading a weather app or game, connecting to Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or powering up a home router can allow a data broker to monitor your movements with ease, then compile the […] Read more »
The Self-Selecting Internet
The most obvious solution to the problems with telephone polling is to administer polls online. That is a solution to the burgeoning cost of polling but not to the problem of whether the sample is representative of the electorate. Internet polling is less expensive and many companies provide polling panels […] Read more »
The deep roots of the trust crisis
We all depend in our social, business, financial, and political affairs, on a shared currency of trust. But we have somehow devalued this currency and breaches of public trust have recently grown to epidemic proportions. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is perhaps the most worrying example of […] Read more »
Voters from Both Parties Endorse New ‘Citizen Cabinet’ Method for Consulting Constituents
Looking toward 2020, a major new study finds voters are seeking candidates who they believe will be more responsive to the people. Their dissatisfaction with elected officials in Washington, DC, is fueled by the pervasive perception that they give a higher priority to special interests, partisan interests, and wealthy campaign […] Read more »
Troll Watch: Study Shows Older Americans Share The Most Fake News
NPR’s Sarah McCammon speaks with Andy Guess of Princeton University about a new study that finds that older Americans are more likely to share fake news than their younger counterparts. NPR News Read more »
Who was most likely to share fake news in 2016? Seniors.
This week, the New York Times broke the news that Democratic activists posted misleading Facebook pages and Twitter feeds during the 2017 U.S. Senate race in Alabama. That’s just the latest iteration in the ongoing saga of online disinformation and “fake news” since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Researchers have […] Read more »