Political Process

Stefanos Kasselakis is the darling of the country’s media, with a celebrity status forged on social media. But how much of his carefully crafted image is real?

f President Biden, and the committee hopes to push Meta to clarify its policies on election deepfakes.

Former Democratic operative Tara McGowan is sinking millions into Meta’s ad network to build Courier Newsroom, a media powerhouse for the left.

With advances in technology over the past couple of decades, politicians now can mine a trove of data to inform decisions during election campaigns.

After the 2016 US election and ensuing Cambridge Analytic scandal, there was a lot of scaremongering around digital election campaigning. But this hysteria is, for the most part, unfounded.

Stefanos Kasselakis is the darling of the country’s media, with a celebrity status forged on social media. But how much of his carefully crafted image is real?

British fact-checkers are racing to debunk a suspicious audio recording of UK opposition leader Keir Starmer.

The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary.

While cybersecurity and foreign meddling remain priorities, domestic threats against election workers have risen to the top of the list.

Machine learning can help count people to deliver government funding and decide political representation, but the technology still makes mistakes.

While some experts are concerned with China's growing role in setting global technology standards, others see opportunity.

Social media companies are making plans in case of unrest after election day.

Big data increasingly allows us to predict the future. Will it be capable of predicting who will become the next President of the United States?