Fast CompanyStoryboardHacking DemocracyCurated byFast CompanyHacking Democracy is a series that examines the insidious impact of technology on democracy—and how companies, researchers, and everyday users are fighting back.
Fast CompanyHow Wikipedia's volunteers became the web's best weapon against misinformationFast Company - BY Alex PasternackIn the Facebook era, the volunteer editors behind the archaic-looking website have built Wikipedia into a formidable force for truth. For a few minutes near the end of his first presidential debate, Mike Bloomberg was dead. At 9:38 p.m. Eastern time, a Wikipedia user named DQUACK02 added some text …
Fast Company1996's campaign websites didn't change history. They're just hilariousFast Company - BY Harry McCrackenThe 1996 presidential election was the first of the web era. When the candidates embraced the new medium, the results were more weird than inspiring. By early 1995, the race to win the U.S. presidency in 1996 was well underway. The first two candidates to announce were Phil Gramm (then the senior …
Fast CompanyThis radically simple tool could solve one of our democracy's worst problemsFast Company - BY Mark SullivanPolitical scientists from Harvard and Boston University are using sophisticated mapping algorithms to ensure their solution to gerrymandering is as fair as possible. Louisiana’s 6th would be a fairly normal-looking congressional district if it weren’t for the large 2nd district that cuts into its …
Fast CompanySenator Mark Warner: The 21st century's wars will be fought with misinformationFast Company - BY Mark SullivanWith the 2020 election on the horizon, one of Washington’s best minds on regulating tech shares his fears about social media manipulation and discusses Congress’s failure to tackle election security and interference. Senator Mark Warner has proved himself to be a sort of braintrust on tech issues in …
Fast CompanyInside the 2020 campaign messaging war that's pelting our phones with textsFast Company - BY Mark SullivanTexting has exploded in political campaigns, with over a billion texts expected to be sent during this election cycle. But how effective are they? When I got my first text from Bernie, I didn’t recognize the number, but I opened it anyway. After all, I’m used to opening my texts. This one was from …
