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Election Integrity Partnership

The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) is an American research project.

History

The EIP was launched in July 2020.[1]

On February 11, 2021, the coalition behind EIP announced the launch of the Virality Project to "detect, analyze, and respond to incidents of false and misleading narratives related to COVID-19 vaccines across online ecosystems."[2]

EIP published a final report on its findings related to the 2020 United States presidential election in March 2021.[3]

Organization

EIP is made up of the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), Graphika, Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) and the Center for an Informed Public.

EIP collaborated with:[1:1]

  • AARP
  • Common Cause
  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
  • Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P)
  • Discord
  • Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC)
  • Facebook
  • Global Engagement Center
  • Google
  • Junkipedia
  • MITRE SQUINT
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC)
  • Nextdoor
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project
  • TikTok
  • Twitter

Funding

Funding for the project was provided by:

  • Atlantic Council
  • Craig Newmark Philanthropies
  • Knight Foundation
  • Omidyar Network
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The researchers also disclosed grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Microsoft, National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Washington Population Health Initiative.

Publications

  1. Cercone, J. (2022, October 13). Election Integrity Partnership targeted election misinformation, not conservatives. Poynter. http://archive.today/2022.11.05-041852/https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/election-integrity-partnership-targeted-election-misinformation-not-conservatives/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Announcing the Virality Project. (2021, February 11). The Virality Project. https://web.archive.org/web/20210212210352/https://www.viralityproject.org/news/about ↩︎

  3. Digital Forensic Research Lab, Graphika, Stanford Internet Observatory, & UW Center for an Informed Public. (2021). The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election. Election Integrity Partnership. https://web.archive.org/web/20230612154708/https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tr171zs0069/EIP-Final-Report.pdf ↩︎