TY - JOUR TI - Digital Election Observation: Regulatory Challenges around Legal Online Content AU - Wagner, Ben T2 - The Political Quarterly AB - Between public debates about ‘hacking’ elections, so-called ‘fake news’ and online disinformation campaigns, it has become hard to imagine what free and fair elections in a digital environment could look like. This challenge is particularly pronounced for election observers who monitor free and fair elections. How should election observers fulfil this task when reliable data in online media campaigns are often not even available to media regulators? The following article provides a brief overview of existing challenges around online content regulation and how these apply to elections and election observation. It then considers where resources for digital electoral observation exist and how most effectively to build on these before, in conclusion, discussing next steps and potential opportunities to develop digital election observation further. DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1111/1467-923X.12903 DP - Wiley Online Library SP - 1 EP - 6 LA - en SN - 1467-923X ST - Digital Election Observation UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-923X.12903 Y2 - 2020/10/16/08:27:12 KW - digital campaigning KW - election observation KW - online content KW - regulation ER -