Here we will share links to articles about misinformation related to the presidential election, including examples and tips on how to avoid falsehoods and voter suppression disinformation tactics.
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Disinformation experts are anticipating that social media platforms will continue to be central to foreign and domestic efforts to mislead voters. Twitter has taken action to stop a spam operation that pushed messages from fake accounts about Black people abandoning the Democratic Party. The company …
A prominent Washington-based conservative advocacy organization is promoting a deceptive digital ad campaign that is stoking fears about mail-in voting and targeting battleground states with high concentrations of minority voters. FreedomWorks, the tax-exempt nonprofit that helped launch tea-party …
A group of mailboxes in Burbank, California were photographed with security locks placed on them in August 2020. Like this fact check? Support …
A widespread Facebook post wrongly claims that a loophole in mail-in voting would let people cast two ballots without election officials catching on …
Officials in North Carolina are scrambling to counteract President Donald Trump's call for residents of the state to attempt to vote twice in the …
I learned about the hazards of election night the hard way. In late 2000, only a year into my job as the Buffalo News’s top editor, I had to make the high-anxiety wee-hours decision about a main headline for the paper’s first Wednesday morning print editions. The problem was that no one knew for …
In the summer of 2017, Nina Jankowicz, a twenty-eight-year-old American, was working in Kyiv as a communications adviser to Ukraine’s foreign ministry as part of a yearlong Fulbright fellowship. Jankowicz had an interest in digital diplomacy and in countering disinformation that was matched by a …
Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump's Deplorable Army, To The Death Media, and One Angry …
About six in 10 registered voters nationwide say they want to cast their ballots before Election Day, a significant departure from previous years that will force the candidates to reshape how they campaign in the election season’s final weeks, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland …
Kelly Ferro is a busy mom on her way to the post office: leather mini-backpack, brunet topknot, turquoise pedicure with a matching ombré manicure. A hairdresser from Kenosha, Wis., Ferro didn’t vote in 2016 but has since become a strong supporter of Donald Trump. “Why does the news hate the …
Don't fall for misinformation on voting and candidates in 2020. Protect yourselves and democracy by verifying facts and breaking out of your bubbles. In the 2016 presidential election, foreign and domestic disinformation flooded social media platforms, misled and misinformed Americans and sought to …
A flood of disinformation and deceptive claims is damaging Joe Biden in the nation’s biggest swing state. MIAMI — George Soros directs a “deep state” global conspiracy network. A Joe Biden win would put America in control of “Jews and Blacks.” The Democratic nominee has a pedophilia problem. Wild …
Disinformation targeting Latino communities is ramping up ahead of Election Day, when the demographic is expected to play a crucial role in key …
The shift in tactics comes the same week as Twitter released new data stating that their ban on QAnon-related accounts was severely limiting the reach of the conspiracy theory. Facing crackdowns from tech companies that limit the reach of their content, leaders in the QAnon conspiracy theory …
By Joan Donovan, Research Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy In the battle to combat …
Images and stories like these are being used to mislead people about the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election and of mail-in ballots in …
No Ditch & Dem Did the FBI release a statement saying that "multiple" military mail-in ballots were found thrown away in a ditch in Pennsylvania? No, …
Quick Take A clip from a television interview with former Vice President Joe Biden is circulating online with the false claim that he is reading from …
Presidential candidate Joe Biden sat down for an interview with Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart and vowed that, if elected, he would halt deportations …
The Long History of ‘Hidden Earpiece’ Conspiracy Theories Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, right-wing commentators (and President Trump’s campaign) speculated that Joe Biden might be equipped with a hidden earpiece. It’s a decades-old charge without much evidence. Published Sept. 29, 2020Updated Jan. 20, …
Here’s a higher quality video of the interaction shown in the video. Notice how Biden creates the crease after reaching under his blazer: Before the …
LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of this year’s vote, two people familiar with an FBI probe into the activity told Reuters. The latest operation centred around a …
“To the extent that the mass media model we identify here is the primary driver of information disorder, it will not be cured by more fact checking on Facebook.” Editor’s note: With mis- and disinformation campaigns heating up, a vacancy on the Supreme Court, and a President who is ill with Covid-19 …
Images and stories like these are being used to mislead people about the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election and of mail-in ballots in …
CNN Business — Facebook said Wednesday it will now remove content that urges Americans to report to the polls as unauthorized poll watchers if that content uses “militarized language” or when the intent behind the posts is to intimidate voters. Posts that use the word “army” or “battle” or that are …
Facebook said Thursday that it has taken down hundreds of fake accounts created by a marketing company that worked with the young conservative group Turning Point USA. Facebook said Thursday that it has taken down hundreds of fake accounts created by a marketing company that worked with the young …
The changes will alter the look and feel of Twitter, increasing the amount of time a user must spend to retweet someone else’s comment Twitter will impose new warnings on politicians’ lies, restrict premature declarations of victory and block calls for polling violence or other disruptions, the …
The California Republican Party has admitted responsibility for placing more than 50 deceptively labeled “official” drop boxes for mail-in ballots in Los Angeles, Fresno and Orange Counties — an action that state officials said was illegal and could lead to election fraud. The dark gray metal boxes …
