Module 1: Elections Integrity on Online Platforms: What to Expect and How to Engage - 11 March 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET
In 2023, the Integrity Institute Elections Integrity Working Group released best practices for online platforms’ elections integrity efforts (Part 1 & Part 2). These resources are primarily aimed at platforms, but offer valuable information for civil society and regulators to understand what to look for from platforms around elections, what external stakeholders can be advocating for platforms to be doing, and what the entry points might be to interact with platforms effectively to address the challenges related to the electoral context. With elections in Europe scheduled throughout 2024, including for European Parliament, this training is offered to EU-based non-platform stakeholders to share the insights from the Elections Integrity Best Practices resources. The information provided in the training will help these stakeholders better understand how platforms can and should be undertaking election integrity work, and how they can advocate for better practices, and more effectively interact with platforms.
Target audience: European civil society organizations, academic researchers, and EU regulators/policymakers
Meet your Trainers
Jeff Allen is co-founder and Chief Research Officer at the Integrity Institute. A former physicist and astronomer who left academia for data science, Jeff has worked on multiple sides of the internet information ecosystem: on publishers trying to maximize traffic they get from platforms, on platforms themselves, and on political organizations and campaigns trying to navigate online spaces. At Facebook and Instagram, he worked to ensure that the incentive structure the platforms created for publishers aligned with the company mission statement.
Glenn Ellingson is a technologist specializing in the safety of online platforms. With the Integrity Institute he focuses on global election integrity efforts. Glenn has led teams at Facebook and Instagram working on digital literacy, voter suppression, civic harassment, and electoral & health misinformation through global events including the 2020 US election cycle and the first years of the covid pandemic. Glenn has degrees in computer science and communication and three decades of experience building internet platforms of all sizes.
Deadline for applications
4 March 2024, 10:00 CET
Applications are now closed