Downtown Columbus, Ohio, USA
A Letter to Jenna – Episode #04 – Ohio [October 2022]
Episode #04 follows Ohio-based Tiffany Rumbalski from CommonCause.org in the organisation’s activism on countering disinformation within the U.S. in the immediate run-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
Project context:
Various major political events in recent years have been profoundly influenced by the targeted spread of false information and massive interferences from social networks. This has had devastating effects on the decision-making processes in democratic states and is continuing to threaten to destabilise their societies.
Most recently, an offensive war of aggression has been launched by Vladimir Putin, built on a range of blatant lies, the targeted dissemination of propagandist narratives, false accusations, and deliberate deception within a sphere of diplomatic norms.
›A Letter to Jenna‹ is an ongoing multidisciplinary documentary project exploring the topic of disinformation and focussing on existing counter-movements in consecutive episodes.
This episode was kindly supported with a grant from Bayerisches Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst ›Junge Kunst und neue Wege‹.
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Tiffany Rumbalski, election protection activist and media monitoring coordinator at CommonCause.org
A Letter to Jenna – Episode #04A – Tiffany
HD, 10:47min
Tiffany Rumbalski is a media monitoring coordinator at CommonCause.org.
Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. It has led a social media monitoring effort during federal and state elections and has developed tools to enable monitoring and tracking of mis- and disinformation content, as well as rapid response techniques.
In the interview Tiffany speaks about election disinformation from various actors, the mechanisms behind and the methods to counter it.
Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 2022
A Letter to Jenna – Episode #04B – Tiffany
HD, 4:36min
Tiffany Rumbalski is a media monitoring coordinator at CommonCause.org.
The video follows her in Columbus, Ohio
Ohio, USA, October 2022
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Tiffany Rumbalski, election protection activist and media monitoring coordinator at CommonCause.org
Election protection poster
Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio
Absentee ballot for mail-in voting