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Google
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Media Literacy: Secondary Education
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Television Channels
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Rede Globo (Television Network, Brazil)
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Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and Beyond
Key Guidance
National Democratic Institute (NDI);International Republican Institute (IRI);Stanford Internet Observatory (2021), 59 pp.
"The playbook approach consists of how to (1) identify ongoing information manipulation campaigns; (2) develop real-time and short-term responses; and (3) build long-term resilience to information manipulation. While we outline three distinct steps in this playbook, the process for combating informa
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Report: Media Perception Index (MPI)
USAID;Center for Free Elections and Democracy (2021), 76 pp.
Candidate Advertisements and Afro-Brazilian Political Marginalization
Latin American Research Review (LARR), volume 56, issue 4 (2021), pp. 761-778
"Television is an important political tool in Latin America. In recognition of its ability to shape public opinion and influence political behavior, Brazilian electoral authorities provide political parties with free television airtime in the weeks preceding elections. While Brazil’s publicly fina
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Respuestas para combatir la desinformación en procesos electorales en Perú
Lima: UNESCO (2021), 72 pp.
"Este informe de UNESCO en Perú analiza una variedad de respuestas que han sido implementadas en el país para contrarrestar los efectos de la desinformación durante las Elecciones Generales 2021. El estudio reconoce que diversas organizaciones han contribuido en la lucha contra las llamadas fake
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Disinformation in the Brazilian pre-election context: Probing the content, spread and implications of fake news about Lula da Silva
Communication Review, volume 24, issue 4 (2021), pp. 297-319
"This research scrutinizes the content, spread, and implications of disinformation in Brazil’s 2018 pre-election period. It focuses specifically on the most widely shared fake news about Lula da Silva and links these with the preexisting polarization and political radicalization, ascertaining the
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Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
Social Media + Society, volume 7, issue 2 (2021), 13 pp.
"In this article, we analyze the spread of political disinformation in events of discursive struggles on Twitter, during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. These were disputes for the hegemonic narrative between two stories based on opposed hashtags: one based on news from mainstream media an
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Ondo and Edo Elections 2020: A Distribution Analysis of Information Disorder via Media Channels
Abuja: Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) (2021), 10 pp.
Ghana 2020 Elections: Monitoring of Indecent Language on Radio. June 2020-January 2021
Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2021), 34 pp.
Using Social Media to Strengthen the Political Participation of Young Women and Men in Nigeria
London: BBC Media Action (2021), 3 pp.
"The EU Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU SDGN) project funded by the EU employed a ‘social media first’ approach to strengthen the political knowledge, understanding, discussion and efficacy of young (18-24 years) women and men across all 36 states and FCT in Nigeria. High-impact
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Why Access to Information is Essential for Democratic Elections in Africa
CIPESA (2021), 5 pp.
"Among the various forms of online censorship, internet shutdowns are some of the most invasive and blunt. Unlike traditional forms of censorship like blocking internet pages or certain content, these disruptions to digital communications are architectural and affect a preliminary condition in the i
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Elections and TV News in South Africa: Desperately Seeking Depth
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxii, 244 pp.
"Over the course of nine chapters, Elections and TV News in South Africa shows how six democratic South African general elections, 1994-2019, were represented on both local and international news broadcasts. It reveals the shifting narratives about South African democracy, coupled with changing and
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Polarising Content and Hate Speech Ahead of Kenya's 2022 Elections
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 15 pp.
Ugandan Media Coverage of the 2021 Elections: January Final Report
Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2021), v, 74 pp.
Political messaging and information disorder during the 2020 Ghanaian elections: A multi-study analysis of verified misinformation and political social media engagement
Abuja: Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) (2021), 37 pp.
Understanding Viral Communism: A Thematic Analysis of Twitter During Brazil’s 2018 Elections
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 15, issue 1 (2020), pp. 19-36
"This research performs a thematic analysis on tweets published during Brazil’s 2018 elections that mentioned communism. The idea was to identify the linkages to other underlying themes that emerged during what we saw as the Twitter ‘virality of communism’ and interpret them considering the ba
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Framing Democracy. Media Coverage of Tanzania's 2020 Presidential Elections: A Focus on Opposition Candidate Tundu Lissu
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 15 pp.
Newsroom Handbook: A Conflict Sensitive Approach to Election Reporting
Internews (2020), 24 pp.
"This handbook brings together principles of conflict sensitive journalism with practical strategies for election reporting to explore how media workers can play a role in protecting and promoting free and fair elections. It aims to provide some guidelines that both editors and their journalists can
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How Do Indonesian Media Portray the 2019 Presidential Debate? A Study of Media Coverage in Urban Setting
Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG);Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), vi, 47 pp.
"In this research, we found that:
1. The media tend to play safe during the 2019 presidential election. When addressing certain issues, the media rarely provided their own in-depth analysis based on certain values. They let the public decide by itself by bring debates and use comments from prominent
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Considerations on Internet Voting: An Overview for Electoral Decision-Makers
Arlington: International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES);USAID (2020), 21 pp.
Countering Disinformation: A Guide to Promoting Information Integrity
Key Guidance
Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS);USAID (2020), [345 pp.]
"This resource combines the collective wisdom of organizations on the front lines of combatting disinformation globally. This living project provides an outline of what’s being done to address the challenge in key areas and provides a searchable database of the organizations around the world engag
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