The 2024 U.S. presidential election has been mired in false claims and half-truths on social media by political actors, scams by outside organisations, and Russian disinformation campaigns. This talk provided an overview and unpacked a few of the major false information and disinformation campaigns during the 2024 US election season on Twitter and Facebook and paid ads on Facebook and Instagram. They explored the effect of these campaigns on delegitimising democracy.

Speaker Bio:

Jennifer Stromer-Galley is a Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, USA. She is the author of Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age (2nd. Ed., 2019), which provides a review between 1996 and 2016 of the ways U.S. presidential candidates have used digital technologies for strategic communication. She’s been the principal investigator of over $15 million in grants to support research on cognitive biases, complex reasoning, and strategic messaging during political campaigns. Her current research project studies misinformation in the 2024 presidential election with a generous grant from Neo4j. An interactive dashboard of the projects’ analysis of paid ads on Facebook and Instagram can be found at: https://electiongraph.ischool.syr.edu.

 

First published: 18 October 2024

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