Misinformation 2020: What the Data Tells Us About Election-Related Falsehoods
Here are urgent lessons from the year’s most-spread false themes — and the ones going viral right now.
Article/Op-Ed in Defense One
Original art by Paweł Kuczyński
Nov. 5, 2020
Peter Singer wrote an article for Defense One summarizing the role of misinformation in 2020 politics.
We can’t fully understand the 2020 election and its current aftermath without understanding how misinformation flowed — and continues to flow — through the body politic. So what does the hard data tell us about the online information warfare that targeted American voters?