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UKs Channel 4 news blows the lid on voter suppression techniques thought to be employed by the Trump campaign in 2016 to deter groups of black people from voting in Key swing states. They used Market Research databases to find out economic _...Read More_

"The platforms on which much of this disinformation is being spread are not owned by Kenyans, are not controlled by Kenyans. So what does accountability for political misinformation look like when a British company uses an American platform _...Read More_

“The way I think about data is that it’s like uranium: One atom of uranium floating in a room is not harmful. If you put a lot together, you can do a lot of harm with it or you can do a lot of good. Radiation can kill you, but it also can _...Read More_

"The problem with not knowing if something is serious or satirical is that [it] renders any intervention efforts moot out of the gate,” says Phillips. “That's what makes the work feel sometimes so futile, because we don't even know exactly _...Read More_