Detecting Digital Fingerprints: Tracing Chinese Disinformation in Taiwan

In June 2019, with the 2018 local elections as a point of reference, Graphika, Institute for the Future’s (IFTF) Digital Intelligence Lab, and the International Republican Institute (IRI) embarked on a research project to comprehensively study the online information environment in the lead up to, during, and in the aftermath of Taiwan’s January 2020 elections, with an awareness of the 2018 precedents and an eye for potential similar incidents throughout this election cycle.

Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring

This guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks. By sharing lessons learned and best practices from across our global network, this guide empowers practitioners to make democracy work online by helping them understand data collection, locate the sources of malicious content, and use the tools of social media monitoring to support their objectives.