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Podcast: Alex Stamos on misinformation around the U.S. election

Trump supporters cheer as they march to protest the election outcome

Ahead of the U.S. election and in anticipation of a flood of misinformation around the vote, Alex Stamos, who directs the Stanford Internet Observatory, helped set up the Election Integrity Partnership to detect and mitigate election-related misinformation. This week on

Lawfare‘s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Stamos talks with Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic about what he and his team observed during the election and how the information ecosystem coped with massive amounts of mis- and disinformation.

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