Public Education Forum is Exposing disinformation. Building civic resilience. - Buymeacoffee Welcome to the Public Education Forum. We’re a grassroots project fighting disinformation through open, civic education. Born from a viral tweet in 2023, we’ve launched campaigns, built tools, and spa

This series is part of the Forum’s effort to build cognitive resilience through clear, research-backed public education.

We trace how influence works—not just what it says.

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#PrimingPower #ForumThreads

Source:
Shaki, Aumann & Kraus (2024)

Voter Priming Campaigns: Strategies, Equilibria, and Algorithms
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.1...

#PrimingPower #ForumThreads #Disinformation #IssueSalience #AttentionPolitics

Source:
Shaki, Aumann & Kraus (2024)
Voter Priming Campaigns: Strategies, Equilibria, and Algorithms
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.1...

#PrimingPower4 #Disinformation #ForumThreads #MediaLiteracy #AttentionPolitics

Shaki, Aumann & Kraus (2024)
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.1...

#PrimingPower3 #ForumThreads #ElectionPsychology #InformationControl

Takeaway:

We often think campaigns want to change our minds.

They don’t.

They want to change our mental playlist.

The order of issues decides the outcome.

The top song wins.

#PrimingPower2 #ForumThreads #Disinformation #IssueSalience

In the next threads, we’ll look at:

How campaigns choose issues
When strategy reaches equilibrium
Why this matters for disinfo defense

Not all lies are falsehoods.
Some are priorities.

#PrimingPower1 #ForumThreads #ElectionPsychology

Source:
Pamment & Tsurtsumia (2025) - Beyond Operation Doppelgänger

mpf.se/psychological...

#DeceptionByDesign5 #ForumThreads #NarrativeWarfare #InformationThreats #CognitiveSecurity

Source:
Pamment & Tsurtsumia (2025) - Beyond Operation Doppelgänger

mpf.se/psychological...

#DeceptionByDesign4 #ForumThreads #Disinformation #NarrativeWarfare #InformationThreats

#DeceptionByDesign3 #NarrativeWarfare #Disinformation #ForumThreads #InfluenceOps

#DeceptionByDesign2 #InfoOps #ForumThreads #StrategicInfluence #Disinformation

Source:
Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency - Pamment & Tsurtsumia (2025)

mpf.se/psychological...

#DeceptionByDesign1 #Disinformation #NarrativeWarfare #ForumThreads #PsychologicalOperations

#DeceptionByDesign
#Disinformation #ForumThreads #PsychologicalOperations #InfoThreats

#VoteFocus #ForumThreads #Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #CivicResilience

Frontiers | Activating effects of elections: changes in young voters’ political engagement over the course of an election year Although the effects of elections and measures of direct democracy on policy outcomes have been well researched, their indirect “educative value” has receive...

Source:
Eckstein et al. (2024)
Activating Young Voters During Election Campaigns

🔗 www.frontiersin.org/...

#VoteFocus4 #CivicHabits #VoterEngagement #ForumThreads

Source:
Shaki et al. (2024)

A Game-Theoretic Model of Campaign Priming

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.1...
#VoteFocus3 #MediaLiteracy #IssueSalience #ForumThreads

Sources:
Jun & Lee (2025)
Bounding the Effect of Persuasion
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.0...

Le Pennec & Pons (2022)
www.nber.org/papers/...

#VoteFocus2 #Disinformation #ForumThreads #MediaLiteracy #PersuasionMyths

How Do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multi-Country Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Source:
Le Pennec & Pons (2022)
Vote Choice Formation and Minimal Effects of TV Debates
www.nber.org/papers/...

#VoteFocus1 #MediaLiteracy #Disinformation #ForumThreads

#Disinformation #NewsSharing #ForumThreads
#MediaLiteracy #Polarization #InfoTerritories
#DigitalSmarts #InformationEcology #StorySelection #EpistemicDivide

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet... News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context,...

Source:
Gaisbauer, Pournaki & Ohme (2025)
A political cartography of news sharing

arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0...

#Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #ForumThreads
#NewsSharing #InfoIntegrity #InfoTerritories5

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet... News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context,...

Source:
Gaisbauer, Pournaki & Ohme (2025)A political cartography of news sharing

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0...

#Disinformation #ForumThreads #NewsSharing
#MediaLiteracy #DigitalSmarts #InfoTerritories4

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet... News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context,...

Source: Gaisbauer, Pournaki & Ohme (2025) - A political cartography of news sharing

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0...

#Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #ForumThreads
#StoryPolarization #NewsSharing #InfoTerritories3

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet... News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context,...

Source: Gaisbauer, Pournaki & Ohme (2025) - A political cartography of news sharing

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0...

#Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #ForumThreads
#NewsSharing #Polarization #InfoTerritories2

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet... News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context,...

Source: Gaisbauer, Pournaki & Ohme (2025)

A political cartography of news sharing

arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0...

#Disinformation #Polarization #NewsSharing
#ForumThreads #MediaLiteracy #InfoTerritories1

#Disinformation #AdTech #ProgrammaticAds
#ForumThreads #MarketingEthics #InfoIntegrity
#ClickFraud #MediaLiteracy #SociotechnicalImaginaries
#DigitalSmarts #DigitalEconomy

#Disinformation #AdTech #MarketingEthics #ForumThreads
#InfoIntegrity #ProgrammaticAds #DigitalEconomy #SociotechnicalImaginaries #AdDisinfo5

Next:
🧵 Why disinfo isn’t just an externality—it’s a built-in result of ad-funded infrastructure.

#Disinformation #ClickFraud #AdTech #ForumThreads
#MarketingEthics #InfoIntegrity #DigitalSmarts #BotsAndClicks #AdDisinfo4

Next up:
🧵 When bots make the money—how click metrics create the perfect ecosystem for disinformation.

#Disinformation #MarketingEthics #AdTech #ForumThreads
#SociotechnicalImaginaries #MediaLiteracy #InfoIntegrity #DigitalSmarts #AdDisinfo3

#Disinformation #AdTech #ProgrammaticAds

Programmatic Advertising 101 –
How the System Works (and Fails)

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#ForumThreads
#Clickfraud #InfoIntegrity #DigitalSmarts #MarketingEthics

Next up:
🧵 The stories marketers tell themselves to justify it all—“sociotechnical imaginaries” and the myth of neutrality.

#Disinformation #AdTech #ProgrammaticAds #ForumThreads
#Clickfraud #InfoIntegrity #DigitalSmarts #MarketingEthics #AdDisinfo2

Next up:
🧵 How programmatic advertising works—and why it’s perfect for disinformation

#Disinformation #AdTech #ProgrammaticAds #ForumThreads
#Clickfraud #InfoIntegrity #DigitalEconomy #MediaLiteracy #AdDisinfo1