The latest Cambridge Analytica leaks show just how compromised voting - one of the pillars of democracy - has become.
Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks
Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks
Watch all of Channel 4 News' investigations into both Cambridge Analytica - the British data firm linked to Trump's win - and the Brexit campaign.
The Cambridge Analytica Files | The Guardian
Latest The Cambridge Analytica Files news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
David Dill: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
A Stanford computer scientist says Internet voting would be "a complete disaster."
Watch The Great Hack | Netflix Official Site
Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
We now know the apparatus of repression has been attached to the democratic state, but our struggle for privacy is far from hopeless. By Eben Moglen
Democracy as a Scaled Collective Intelligence Process: Points of Vulnerability and Augmentation
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The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far (Published 2018)
For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack: spies, leaked emails, social media fraud — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.
The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy
Abstract The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science, psychology, and critical theory, it explains why elections do not and cannot realize the classic ideal of popular rule, and why prevailing strategies of democratic reform often make things worse. Instead, Bagg argues, we should see democracy as a way of protecting public power from capture—an alternative vision that is at once more realistic and more inspiring. Despite their many shortcomings, real-world elections do prevent the most extreme forms of tyranny, and are therefore indispensable. In dealing with the vast inequalities that remain, however, we cannot rely on standard solutions such as electoral reform, direct democracy, deliberation, and participatory governance. Instead, Bagg shows, protecting and enriching democracy requires addressing underlying inequalities of power directly. In part, this entails substantive policies attacking the advantages of wealthy elites. Even more crucially, deepening democracy requires the organization of oppositional, countervailing power among ordinary people. Neither task is easy, but historical precedents exist in both cases—and if democracy is to survive contemporary crises, leaders and citizens alike must find ways to revive and reinvent these essential democratic practices for the twenty-first century.
Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds
Young people, low-income and trans voters were among the groups hardest hit by the policy imposed by the last Conservative Government, academics found
Opinion | To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software (Published 2017)
The threats to elections have never been more serious, and the security of election machinery has never been more important.
How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
The effort to prove the 2020 election "stolen" failed. Diehards remain undeterred.
Security and disinformation in the U.S. 2016 election
We have been conducting a thorough investigation related to the U.S. election across our products. Today, we are sharing results from that investigation.
Election Rumor Rundown for October 13: Emerging rumors around voting machines and ‘ballot dumping’
DHS reports misconstrue vulnerabilities as having been exploited, “Ballot Dumping” in Valley Center misleadingly suggest mass voter fraud, and prediction markets already advertising election bettin…
The hacking threat to the midterms is huge. And technology won’t protect us.
An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.
Making Victoria's Elections Fairer and More Transparent
“Fair elections are the bedrock of democracy, and we are delivering these reforms to ensure Victorians can be confident in their electoral processes.”
