Juking the Stats: Policing and Strategic Misreporting

• In Event: Disinformation, Manipulation and Censorship

Brief Overview

We analyze a game-theoretical model of data production in which a citizen potentially engages in illicit behavior and an agency chooses effort to maintain public order as well as how to report enforcement outcomes.

Authors

• Michael B. Gibilisco, Caltech

• Carlo Matthias Horz, Texas A&M