The Ultimate Guide to Election Integrity! with Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson
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 episode Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson join the show to prepare you for the storm of elections coming in 2024.
You may recognize Katie as the inaugural guest of Trust in Tech. Katie is an Integrity Institute Fellow and global leader at the intersection of elections, democracy, and technology. She is Chief Executive of Anchor Change where she helps clients think through tech policy issues. Before that she worked at Meta for 10 years where she built and led a 30 person team managing elections.
Glenn is an Integrity Institute member who was previously an engineering manager for Meta’s civic integrity team and before that Head of Product Engineering for Hustle - a company which helped progressive political organizations and other nonprofit and for-profit groups forge personal relationships at scale.
Glenn and Katie led the development of the Elections Best Practices deck shared on the Integrity Institute website, which we discuss in the episode.
We also answer some of the following questions:
How to prioritize different elections across the world?
What principles to adhere to when working on election integrity?
What are the challenges of dealing with political harassment?
How to map out the landscape of election integrity work?
What was Cambridge Analytica, and did the scandal actually make platforms less transparent?
And how your company can learn best practices and responsibly deal with elections
Links:
Election integrity best practices guide
A Brief History of Tech and Elections: A 26-Year Journey
Demystifying the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Five Years Later
As a reminder: The views in this episode only represent the views of the people involved in the recording of the episode. They do not represent Meta’s or any other entity’s views.
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Credits:
Produced by Talha Baig
Music by Zhao Shen
Special Thanks to Rachel, Sean, Cass and Sahar for their continued support