The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

University

Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-3.15: An analysis of more than 300,000 emails from over 3,000 senders in the 2020 cycle, including federal and state candidates and political committees across parties, found that manipulative tactics, meaning techniques that use some level of deception or clickbait, are the norm in political emails.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 737 January 2023. Mathur, Wang, Schwemmer, Hamin, Stewart, Narayanan (Big Data & Society): Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle