Fact or Fiction

Fact or Fiction

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Fact or Fiction

What's at stake is the very health of democracy

In the malicious sea of online misinformation, disinformation, and harm, where are the lifeguards? Founded in 2019, GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) was established to develop a new science of combating online harms. By gathering experts across many disciplines to analyze the ever-complex digital media ecosystem, IDDP aims to distinguish fact from fiction and give the truth—and our democracy—a fighting chance.

Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics

 

IDDP Fact or Fiction

 

 

 

 

IDDP’s Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Examining problems as vast and complex as online disinformation and harm require multiple angles of approach. IDDP gathers the best minds in disciplines as seemingly disparate as computer science, engineering, government and law, media, public health and more to devise solutions as they inform journalists, advise policymakers and engage influential organizations around the world.

Our Researchers 

Rebekah Tromble

 

Rebekah Tromble

Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics

David Broniatowski

 

David Broniatowski

Associate Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics

Lorien Abroms

 

Lorien Abroms

Knight Fellow, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics

Dawn Nunziato

 

Dawn Nunziato

Knight Fellow, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inoculating Against Lies: IDDP and COVID-19

As more people than ever before reject traditional media outlets for health information on social media and other dubious sources — particularly amid the greatest global pandemic in a century — IDDP is not only analyzing how people are being influenced by health misinformation online, but also working to calm fears, help the vaccine hesitant, and ultimately inoculate people with the truth.