From Map Light‘s Hamsini Sridharan:

In a new report, Ann Ravel and Hamsini Sridharan of MapLight and Samuel Woolley of the Institute for the Future outline more than 30 concrete proposals—all grounded in the democratic principles of transparency, accountability, standards, coordination, adaptability, and inclusivity–to protect the integrity of the future elections, including the pivotal 2020 U.S. presidential election. Rather than leaving technology companies and manipulative political actors to their own devices, the report brings the strengths of government and civil society to bear on the problem of digital deception.

This platform spans recommendations in the areas of campaign finance; data usage and privacy; automated and fake social media accounts; global cooperation; and media and civic education, among others. It is divided into immediate policy proposals — such as improving disclosure requirements for online political ads and creating a new government authority to investigate the true source of funding for digital political activity — and systemic changes like building media literacy and civics into public education, learning from policy models around the world, and incorporating a civil rights perspective into product design.

Map Light has the full article.