Wikipedia As Campaign Battleground

Campaigns

Harris campaign social media account has repeatedly deceived with misleading edits and captions
CNN
"The @KamalaHQ account, which has more than 1.3 million followers on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump."

The decline of local news has become a campaign problem
Columbia Journalism Review
"That’s forced campaigns to rethink how they communicate about their candidate’s policies and personal backgrounds with the very people whose votes they need. 'Sometimes I’ve had to employ the strategy of getting the national press to cover something just so the local press will pick it up,' Leopold said."

Content

Can Wikipedia Stay Neutral in the 2024 Presidential Election?
The Wikipedian
"The stakes of this year’s U.S. presidential election may be higher than any other in living memory, and Wikipedia’s role in shaping perceptions may be greater than any election since its founding. Editors, readers, researchers, and commentators will continue to scrutinize it for bias, not to mention accuracy and proportionality. All that’s certain is Wikipedia will take its role very seriously."

Disinformation

Meta bans Russian state media outlet RT for acts of ‘foreign interference’
Washington Post
"In a response to the ban, RT told The Washington Post that Meta’s move follows up on its blocking the network in Europe two years ago. 'Don’t worry, where they close a door, and then a window, our ‘partisans’ (or in your parlance, guerrilla fighters) will find the cracks to crawl through.'"

International

How International Campaigners Use Creativity To Overcome Limited Budgets
Campaign Trend
"In the US, because of the financial advantage, campaigns can drive their messages with brute force alone, and this kind of creativity is rarely seen. Indeed, the flood of campaign spending means that campaigns risk being drowned out if they don’t match competitive outlays."

Security

Countdown to Election Day: Cybersecurity Risks Every Campaign Faces
Defending Digital Campaigns
"Ensure campaign staff are trained to be vigilant about any communications requesting payments. Establish a protocol to always verify directly with the source of the email through a separate, known email address or via phone call. Instruct staff processing payments to consistently double-check routing numbers to prevent misdirection of funds."

Social Media

Platform Politics – Katie Harbath
Campaign Trend
"Digital strategies and how people get their information changes vastly every four years, even every two years."

Tech’s Different Approaches to 2024
Anchor Change
"No single company will have an outsized impact on the election. Our information environment is too fragmented, and it is a mistake to think that X, Facebook, TikTok, or any platform alone is swaying anything."

Technology

Political campaigns embrace AI to reach voters across language barriers
Rest of World
"Last December, the political advocacy group AAPI Victory Alliance received a $20,000 grant to develop an AI chatbot that would translate and refine campaign messages into Hindi, Tagalog, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, and Vietnamese. Awarded by the venture fund Higher Ground Labs, the money was meant to fund a three-week test run to determine how useful LLMs could be for campaigns."

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