election 2020 | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles tagged election 2020 (21)

Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye CooleyOctober 22, 2020

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media are turning on Trump, an analysis of foreign news outlets suggests

Two key moments from the 2020 campaign — the first debate and Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis — are particularly illustrative.

To cover voting and all its “subplots” over the next three weeks, FiveThirtyEight turns to a “slower-than-usual liveblog”

Joshua BentonOctober 7, 2020

Should news outlets stop making election forecasts based on polling data?

There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 5, 2020

A new study shows how Trump and the RNC duped traditional media into covering mail-in voter fraud

“To the extent that the mass media model we identify here is the primary driver of information disorder, it will not be cured by more fact checking on Facebook.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 2, 2020

Trump, down in the polls, ramps up assaults on the election’s legitimacy as Facebook does “worse than nothing”

Plus: How Trump’s 2016 digital campaign sought to suppress the Black vote, and people on both sides of the political spectrum are vulnerable to misinformation about mail dumping.

Votebeat and Election SOS will place local reporters in newsrooms to boost election coverage

Sarah ScireSeptember 29, 2020

The election could be contested and last for weeks after Nov. 3. Here’s what experts think journalists should know.

“Newsrooms need to prepare for a political environment in which mainstream political figures, most notably the President of the United States, are going to promote false and unsupported claims about the election. They need to prepare for that now.”

Curd Knüpfer and Robert Mathew EntmanSeptember 29, 2020

Fox News uses the word “hate” much, much more often than MSNBC or CNN

“Fox’s use of ‘hate’ really took off when Trump’s presidency began. Beginning in January 2017, the mean usage of ‘they hate’ on the network doubled.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 18, 2020

Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing — and often hidden. Is help on the way?

“Conspiracies are flourishing with virtually no response from credible Spanish-language media outlets.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 4, 2020

Facebook has been terrible about removing vaccine misinformation. Will it do better with election misinformation?

“Even when companies are handed misinformation on a silver platter, they fail to act.”

Older articles

Newer articles