As part of our Elections Integrity Program, the Integrity Institute is tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online, for major elections globally.

Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.

With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a US presidential election, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new guide – the first in a planned series – on best practices for online companies to help better support healthy elections across platforms, particularly those who are newer or smaller.

With the Bipartisan Policy Center and the States United Democracy Center, we released new survey results exploring how Americans consume, assess, and engage with election information in 2024. We found that Americans learn about elections primarily through television and social media. Authoritative sources may struggle to break through or create universal narratives amidst a crowded information environment.

Chief research officer Jeff Allen shares the news about the European Commission extensively citing the Institute’s work

It might be May 2023, but it’s never too early to start worrying about elections! 2024 is slated to be the biggest year of elections in platform history. In this Trust in Tech episode, Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson join the show to prepare you for the storm of elections coming in 2024.

2024 has 65 elections globally across 54 countries. We won’t see that many again until 2048. Katie Harbath and Ana Khizanishvili share what these numbers from global elections tell us about the future of democracy.

An interactive map to look at how often countries go to the polls and when their next elections are.

Thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Integrity Institute will be running a program supporting the integrity of elections on social media platforms through 2024.

A filterable database which contains information from nearly 50 companies about their work on elections across the globe over the past 20 years.

A graph looking at what topics social media companies have highlighted in their announcements for the U.S. 2022 midterm elections.

An analysis of the public announcements made by technology companies over the past 26 years, including their public messaging about their election roles.

Elections Program Lead Katie Harbath’s New York Times op-ed on the coming wave of elections in the next few years that social media platforms must prepare for.