The American Press Institute is coordinating a network of newsroom leaders, civic and academic institutions and experts working throughout 2020 to address misinformation and other threats to secure, trusted elections.
The network advances strategies, lessons and other resources to help news organizations and others identify and respond to misinformation, disinformation and other challenges to the security and accessibility of American elections.
To join the network, you can express your interest by completing this short form or by sending us a note at election2020@pressinstitute.org.
API’s Trusted Elections Network is funded with support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
Below, we’ve included a list of tools, research, and other resources to support journalists and others to better inform and serve Americans in this election cycle. We will regularly update the information and resources below.
Basic Questions about Elections and Mis/Disinformation
What’s the difference between misinformation and disinformation?
Data & Society’s Lexicon of Lies describes various types of problematic information. Misinformation is information whose inaccuracy is unintentional. Disinformation is information that is deliberately false or misleading.
How can I identify misinformation issues in my community?
Ask your audience to share what they’re hearing and seeing with you, as Minnesota Public Radio does with this form. Ask your audience what questions they have about a given topic, like KPCC does for its coronavirus coverage. You may not be able to respond to every issue or question raised, but if you address the most prominent ones quickly, you can help stem the spread of misinformation. KPCC offers this template as an example of their workflow when handling audience questions.
Misinformation often fills data voids, or issues and questions where accurate information isn’t readily available via search engine queries. Use Google Search Trends, targeted to your geography, to see questions people in your community are searching about. Target your reporting to address those issues with the same language that people are using in your area.
How can I help equip my audience to identify and address misinformation?
Encourage your audience to err on the side of skepticism, especially before sharing something (online or in-person) from an unknown source. Infodemic, a resource created by digital literacy researcher Mike Caulfield at Washington State University Vancouver, has a good primer for evaluating sources. But more than likely, it won’t be your core audience sharing misinformation, but their family, friends, and colleagues. Have an easily accessible evergreen page (like Minnesota Public Radio’s “Can you believe it?”) with your fact checks or other responses to misinformation that your audience can draw from to share. Encourage them to engage respectfully and offer to trade information back and forth.
How can I get my audience to trust my reporting or fact checks?
Joy Mayer, director of Trusting News, shares tips for building audience trust. In general, speak directly to your audience about what you’re doing, help them think critically about the accuracy of the information they see and hear, and show them what goes into the reporting process.
Websites and Facebook pages promoting themselves as “real” local news outlets are popping up in my area. How should I talk about these to our audiences?
Researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and the Sanford School at Duke University have been investigating these “pink slime” outlets. They promote themselves as local news despite little to no original reporting, algorithmically-generated stories, and strong partisan leanings. Earlier this year, North Carolina news outlets uncovered a Facebook page, “North Carolina Breaking News,” posting fake content for a month to an audience of 50,000 followers, before Facebook removed the page for an unspecified policy violation.
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