Kris Shaffer

This morning, I woke up to several hundred notifications on Twitter. It was so many all at once that Twitter automatically gave me some new filtering... »

Last night, President Trump gave a speech in Phoenix that sounded a lot like his campaign speeches in 2016. Build a wall… Radical Islamic terrorism… Crooked... »

As more and more people take to Twitter to keep up on fast-developing events, it’s more important than ever important to understand how their platform facilitates... »

A lot happened online on May 5, 2017. Ben Starling, CE Carey, and I found evidence of a massive disinformation campaign taking place on Twitter and... »

I’ve been researching and publishing a lot lately on misinformation, disinformation, ad-tech, sockpuppets, bots, media literacy, election hacking, and the Trump administration. There’s a lot there.... »

Donald Trump talks about immigration in some uniquely horrifying ways. We’re all familiar with his “not sending us their best people” speech from early in his... »

Online advertising plays a crucial role in the spread of misinformation. As Bill Fitzgerald wrote last week, Right now, the status quo in adtech is to... »

The more we study extremist communities online, the more convinced we are that standard advertising practices play a significant role in the spread of misinformation. Further,... »

The Trump administration has been drastically changing the way it communicates information with the public. One of the first pages people noticed missing from the Trump... »

This post is Part 2 in my series on digital minimalism. Check out my first post in this series, Digital minimalism ― being deliberate about digital... »