The 2024 U.S. presidential election has been mired in false claims and half-truths on social media by political actors, scams by outside organizations, and Russian disinformation campaigns. This talk provides an overview and unpacks a few of the major false information and disinformation campaigns this election season on Twitter and Facebook and on paid ads on Facebook and Instagram. It explores the effect of these campaigns on delegitimizing democracy.

This event is taking place in-person the Kelvin Gallery, Gilbert Scott Building at the University of Glasgow or you can sign up to view the talk online.

Speaker Bio:

Jennifer Stromer-Galley is Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, USA. She is 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 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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