Campaign Lab

🚨 Please send in your application by 10 December to be considered for this ESRC studentship in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. Both home and international students are eligible for funding. Some advice on how to apply below 👇

Campaign Lab Academic Series: What Works in Fact-Checking? New Evidence on Republicans and Misinformation - Campaign Lab In the tenth edition of the Campaign Lab Academic Series, Isolde Hegemann, a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics, presented early findings from a major new study examining how Republicans...

Isolde Hegemann at LSE recently delivered our tenth Academic Series on using AI to fight misinformation

Her research compared different attempts to label false posts on social media and found that the strongest effect was produced by AI fact checking

🔗 campaignlab.uk/project/camp...

Do Shared Demographics Make You More Persuasive on the Doorstep? - Campaign Lab Campaigners often assume that people are more likely to be persuaded by someone who looks or sounds like them, someone of a similar age, gender, or background. After all, research has long shown that ...

🚪Research suggests that the idea that voters are more persuaded by people who look or sound like them is a myth.

In our new blog post we break down the evidence that demographics matter much less than the content of the conversation.

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🎉 Final Campaign Lab Hack Night of the year!

Join us to build tools for progressive campaigners and wrap up the year with mulled wine, mince pies and pizza

🕛 Monday 15 December, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/ezjf4pz4

Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier The dangers of artificial intelligence and its potential to consolidate power are clear. But used fairly, it can be a boon for good government

AI can weaken democracy. But there are some areas where it can move the dial in the right direction.

This article highlights a couple of interesting examples.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.

Turns out a bunch of political accounts on X were pretending to be in places they weren’t. A good reminder to stay sceptical about online narratives and why transparency matters for anyone working in campaigns.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How to sustain inclusive politics: mobilising and retaining underrepresented groups in politics · Zoom · Luma Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Dr Katharina Lawall as we look at the challenges facing sustaining inclusivity in politcs. Much…

We often talk about helping diverse candidates into politics but we often miss the problems in retention.

Dr Katharina Lawall adresses this critical issue at our next academic series:

📍 Zoom
🕡 Tuesday 9 December, 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
🔗 luma.com/e05qs8kl

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

This interesting read called The Authoritarian Stack outlines how core public functions are shifting into privately controlled tech infrastructures

We think progresssive technologists will be key to fighting back and creating healthier alternatives

🔗 authoritarian-stack.info

Campaign Lab Winter Hack Night! · Luma Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…

Campaign Lab Hack Nights are one of the best ways to contribute to progressive change and meet like minded people.

Dont miss our next event sign up now!

🕐 Monday 1st December, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/h9orn0df

AI Fact-Checking and the Politics of Misinformation · Zoom · Luma Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Isolde Hegemann as we look at misinformation and the role AI can play in fighting it. As online…

Don’t miss our next Academic Series event next week, where Isolde Hegemann (LSE) will explore how AI can help counter political misinformation.

⏲️ Thursday 27 November, 13:00 - 14:00
📍 Zoom
🔗 luma.com/28c4vplp

Campaign Lab Winter Hack Night! · Luma Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…

Dont miss our Hack Night tonight. Its the best place for progressive technologists to get together and make a difference!

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🕐 Monday 17th November, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/jg1mrwsm

Happy to be out today at the @coopparty.party.coop conference.

Our stall will be open all day, so come along and say hi!

If you cant make it check us out here: campaignlab.uk/get-involved/

It should take about 20 minutes to complete. Your answers will be treated completely anonymously

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#SMKCampaignerSurvey

Our Friends at the Shiela Mckechnie foundation have asked us to share their Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey

It's open until 3rd December and the aim is to support campaigners, improve their practice, build connections, and platform their views

Community Britain: Co-operative Party Annual Conference 2025

This weekend look out for us at the
@coopparty.party.coop conference.

We will be sharing insights and technology. Swing by, say hi and check out the tools helping campaigns cut through.

🕛 15 & 16th November
🔗 party.coop/conference25...

How to sustain inclusive politics: mobilising and retaining underrepresented groups in politics · Zoom · Luma Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Dr Katharina Lawall as we look at the challenges facing sustaining inclusivity in politcs. Much…

Why do women and people with migrant backrounds drop out of politics more than their peers?

Join us and Dr Katharina Lawall to hear what’s driving these retention gaps and how we can help fix them.

📍 Zoom
🕛 Tuesday 9 December, 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
🔗 luma.com/e05qs8kl

Chat Hackers: Prototype Reveal / Hackday · Luma Join us for a showcase and hackday, where we will present the tools we have developed to date, give a workshop on how to build on WhatsApp, and spend the…

Join us this weekend for our next Campaign Lab Hack Day

We will be delving into Matrix protocol and how to use it to help campaigners leverage chat to drive change

📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🕐 Saturday 15 November, 10:30 - 22:00
🔗 luma.com/qyd193bj

🚀Our Newest Newsletter is live.

From The Campaign Fringe to deep dives on bias in UK elections, plus upcoming hack nights, AI misinformation talks and more!

Read more and sign up to future newsletters → mailchi.mp/90e823066594...

The Campaign Fringe 2025 - Campaign Lab On Sunday 29 September, just ten minutes from the Labour Conference, almost 400 attendees filled Camp and Furnace for The Campaign Fringe: a one-day exhibition programme focused on what works in progr...

On September 29th, Campaign Lab hosted the Campaign Fringe at the Labour Conference uniting campaigners from across the progressive ecosystem to share ideas and tools.

If you missed this campaigning masterclass, catch up on the action now! 👇

🔗 campaignlab.uk/project/the-...

Campaign Lab Winter Hack Night! · Luma Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…

Sign up to our next Hack Night and join us to help develop tech to deepen democracy and fight the far right.

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🕐 Monday 17th November, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/jg1mrwsm

Playing by (or with) the rules? Bias and the UK General Elections. - Campaign Lab The ninth entry of our Academic Series asked a deceptively simple question: how did Labour secure one of the largest post-war majorities in 2024 while winning a historically low share of the vote for ...

Two weeks ago we hosted Prof. Chris Pattie for a deep dive into how bias is built into the UK’s First Past the Post system and what that means for modern campaigning. 🗳️

If you care about understanding the system, this one’s worth your time 👇

🔗 campaignlab.uk/project/play...

Campaign Lab Thousands of activists across the UK volunteer their time and energy for campaigns every year. Year in, year out, we use the same campaigning methods and tools we always have, because we think they wo...

Missed one of our Academic Series sessions? 🎓✨
They're all on YouTube ready for you to dive in, rewind, and get inspired.

Perfect for campaigners across the progressive ecosystem who love smart, actionable insights.

🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/@campaignlab...

AI Fact-Checking and the Politics of Misinformation · Zoom · Luma Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Isolde Hegemann as we look at misinformation and the role AI can play in fighting it. As online…

Can AI fix misinformation? 🧠💡

Join us as Isolde Hegemann (LSE) shares new research showing that AI fact-checking might actually work better especially with conservative audiences.

📍 Zoom
🕐 Thursday 27 November, 13:00 - 14:00
🔗 luma.com/28c4vplp

Campaign Lab Autumn Hack Night! · Luma Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…

Calling all technologists and campaigners who want to boost progressive campaigns.

Join our next Hack Night and fight the far right, one line of code at a time.💪💻

🕐 Monday 3rd November, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd, E2 7DG
🔗 luma.com/t2mjw1ey

New paper from King’s College London: small, locally run AI can churn out political messaging at scale, opening the door to DIY propaganda factories

The authors outline defences via detection but its going to be a challenge to stay ahead of the risks

🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20186

We shared www.epetitions.uk a while back as a simple way to hear what matters to people.

A few months on this tool is helping campaigns see what residents actually care about, in real time.

Acting on issues that are salient in your community is how campaigners win!

Chat Hackers: Prototype Reveal / Hackday · Luma Join us for a showcase and hackday, where we will present the tools we have developed to date, give a workshop on how to build on WhatsApp, and spend the…

🚨Excited to announce our next Matrix Hack Day

Sign up now to join technologists and campaigners as we come together to build and share new chat based tools

📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🕛 Saturday 15 November, 10:30 - 22:00
🔗 luma.com/qyd193bj

Playing by (or with) the rules? Bias and the UK General Elections · Zoom · Luma Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series as Professor Charles J Pattie delves into the British electoral system. That the 2024 UK General…

Labour’s historic majority came on a record-low vote share, while Reform outpolled the Lib Dems but won 14x fewer seats

Join us for our academic series as Prof. Charles Pattie explores the problems with using proportionality as a measure of electoral bias

📅 13:00 - 14:00
📍 Zoom
🔗 luma.com/5r9itoik

Campaign Lab Autumn Hack Night! · Luma Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…

Join us for the next Campaign Lab Hack Night where technologists and organisers come together to build tools for for good.

📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🕐 Monday 20 October, 19:00 - 22:00
🔗 luma.com/0vgtwc59

Stand with posters

Panel discussion

Sign reading Expo

At the Campaign Fringe by @campaign-lab.bsky.social today -

If you're in Liverpool today, make sure to drop by to meet some amazing campaigners and chat about what works in campaigning!

It's at Camp & Furnace (outside the main conference area) so you do not need a pass to come

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