Our work on the 2022 US midterms
Capturing Election Messaging Ahead of the 2022 Midterms
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The Midterms Avoided the Worst-Case Outcomes but Vigilance Is Still Needed
Despite fears of political violence and deepening societal divisions, the United States appears to have avoided the worst-case scenarios in the lead-up to and immediately following the midterm elections. Election officials and local law enforcement [...]
Vassilis Ntousas in Progressive Post: Democrats and Democracy Defied Expectations in US 2022 Midterms
On 8 November 2022, two years after Joe Biden was elected president of the United States, Americans cast their ballots in a highly consequential midterm election. Although the final results may take days or weeks to be known, the vaunted ‘red wave’ [...]
Securing Democracy Dispatch
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Hamilton Toplines: November 2–8, 2022
Russia Monitored Russian accounts tweeted 17,045 times from November 2 to November 8, earning 185,885 retweets and 539,333 likes. Kremlin-linked Twitter accounts did not conduct a large-scale messaging push around the US midterm elections. Even on t [...]
David Levine on Newsy: National Guard to Offer Midterms Cybersecurity Help
David Levine, elections integrity fellow at GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, joined Newsy in the lead up to the 2022 US midterm elections. He discussed potential cyber threats, the effects of Twitter’s change of ownership on the platform’s pol [...]
What to Watch: ASD at GMF Experts Weigh in on US 2022 Midterms
Tomorrow’s midterm elections will be a benchmark for the state of American democracy. As early voting surges, people around the country (and the world) are watching to see what happens in what is perhaps the most important midterm election in recent [...]