In the Press

Integrity Institute staff and members are frequently asked to weigh in on current events and issues. Here are a collection of places where we’ve been quoted in the press for our collective expertise.

  • Battered But Still Hopeful, The Guardians of a Civil Internet

    In Reality — Dec. 2024

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  • Exploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to Election

    ProPublica — Oct. 2024

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  • Making Social Media Safer Requires Meaningful Transparency

    Tech Policy Press — Oct. 2024

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  • The Foreign Pro-Trump Fake News Industry Has Pivoted To American Patriotism

    Forbes — Aug. 2024

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  • Don’t Let Generative AI Distract Us from the Real Election Risks in Tech

    Tech Policy Press — Aug. 2024

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  • We Worked On Election Integrity At Meta. The EU – And All Democracies – Need to Fix the Feed Before It’s Too Late

    Tech Policy Press — Jun. 2024

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  • Democracy, Social Media, and the World’s Biggest Election Year (S3, Ep 37)

    Tech Can’t Save Us — Apr. 2024

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  • The Field Guide to Non-Engagement Signals

    Medium — Mar. 2024

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  • Pinterest shares algorithm insights as it shifts focus to non-engagement signals

    Search Engine Land — Mar. 2024

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  • Referring to Designated Dangerous Individuals as “Shaheed”

    Oversight Board — Mar. 2024

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  • Commission is gathering views on draft DSA guidelines for election integrity

    European Commission — Jan. 2024

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  • Who Voters Trust for Election Information in 2024

    Bipartisan Policy Center — Feb. 2024

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  • Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

    AP News — Feb. 2024

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  • Linda Yaccarino Says X Needs More Moderators After All

    WIRED — Jan. 2024

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  • Telegram's Bans on Extremist Channels Aren't Really Bans

    Wired — Nov. 2023

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  • Big Tech Ditched Trust and Safety. Now Startups Are Selling It Back As a Service

    Wired — Nov. 2023

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  • What do platforms actually want out of elections?

    Rest of World — Oct. 2023

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  • Democracies at a tipping point

    Axios — Oct. 2023

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  • How Social Media Amplifies Misinformation More Than Information

    New York Times — Oct. 2022

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  • The most popular content on Facebook belongs in the garbage

    MIT Technology Review - Aug. 2022

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  • As Midterms Loom, Elections Are No Longer Top Priority for Meta C.E.O.

    New York Times — Jun. 2022

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  • Don’t expect Musk’s open-source Twitter plan to give lawmakers what they want

    Politico — May 2022

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  • Elon Musk wants to save the ‘public square.’ Tech veterans have a reality-check for him.

    The Washington Post — May 2022

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  • Reels is Facebook’s TikTok clone — and its future

    Vox — Mar. 2022

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  • Facebook’s most popular posts show how it’s vulnerable to exploitation, report finds

    The Washington Post — Mar. 2022

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  • The case for integrity workers

    New_ Public — Feb. 2022

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  • The 2021 Good Tech Awards

    The New York Times — Dec. 2021

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  • What Is Integrity in Social Media?

    The Lawfare Podcast — Nov. 2021

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  • Platform Integrity, Platform Democracy

    The Sunday Show (Tech Policy Press) — Nov. 2021

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  • How Facebook Could Break Free From the Engagement Trap

    Wired — Nov. 2021

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  • They left Facebook’s integrity team. Now they want the world to know how it works.

    Protocol — Oct. 2021

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