Category Archives: chicanery

“Russian internet trolls hired U.S. journalists to push their news website, Facebook says”

September 1, 2020, 5:31 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

NBC News: Peace Data aimed to court left-leaning voters, said Ben Nimmo, whose company, Graphika, released a report on the site.“This looks like an attempt to target left-wing audiences on a range of issues, but the operation got taken… Continue reading

“Instagram Posts Make False Claim California Voters Will Be ‘Turned Away’ From Polls Due To Mail-In Voting”

September 1, 2020, 5:24 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Cap Radio reports.

“Republicans are flooding the internet with deceptive videos and Big Tech isn’t keeping up”

September 1, 2020, 11:19 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: A series of deceptively edited and misleading videos shared by prominent Republicans have run up millions of views across Facebook and Twitter in just the past few days. And while both companies have pledged to combat misinformation, their… Continue reading

“Senior intelligence officials will no longer brief Congress in person on foreign threats to the 2020 election”

August 30, 2020, 9:05 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

WaPo: Senior intelligence officials will no longer brief Congress in person on foreign interference in the 2020 election. Instead, they will inform lawmakers of threats in writing, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Saturday.The decision, made with… Continue reading

“Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail”

August 28, 2020, 1:22 pmcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Google has declined to remove ads from a shadowy group echoing President Trump’s misleading claim that there is a meaningful difference between voting by mail and absentee voting.Google took five days to reach its decision to leave… Continue reading

“Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says; Disinformation experts are anticipating that social media platforms will continue to be central to foreign and domestic efforts to mislead voters.”

August 27, 2020, 8:50 pmcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

NBC News: Twitter has taken action to stop a spam operation that pushed messages from fake accounts about Black people abandoning the Democratic Party.The company removed two fake accounts and deleted the account of a San Diego man who… Continue reading

Dirty Tricks Dep’t: Detroit Voters Targeted with Robocalls Containing False Voting Information Intended to Suppress Vote By Mail

August 27, 2020, 2:38 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Detroit News: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is warning Detroit voters of a “racially charged” and false robocall that appears to be discouraging mail-in voting ahead of the November election. The recording tells voters that their personal information… Continue reading

“Black voters are being targeted in disinformation campaigns, echoing the 2016 Russian playbook”

August 27, 2020, 8:41 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Four years after Russian operatives used social media in a bid to exacerbate racial divisions in the United States and suppress Black voter turnout, such tactics have spread across a wide range of deceptive online campaigns operated from numerous… Continue reading

Times of Israel Takes Deep Dive into Psy Group’s Connection with Trump Campaign (as Detailed in Senate Intelligence Committee Report), Including Proposal to Target Minority Communities, Suburban Female Voters, and Undecided Voters with Covert Messaging

August 25, 2020, 10:38 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Times of Israel: On August 18, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the fifth volume of its Russia investigation, which examines Russia’s attempts to meddle in US politics during the 2016 elections. An entire section of the… Continue reading

“Facebook removes page using image of LeBron James over ‘voter suppression tactics”

August 23, 2020, 9:35 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Facebook on Friday deleted a page using an image of LeBron James, among other deceptive tactics, to spread false and misleading claims about mail-in voting, a day after The Washington Post raised questions about the online operation.A… Continue reading

Angelo Genova, Lawyer for DNC in the RNC Consent Decree Case for 40 Years, Sends Along Thoughts on Trump’s Comments About Sending Law Enforcement to the Polls in November

August 21, 2020, 6:05 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Angelo Genova, speaking for himself and not the DNC, writes: Rick : I read your piece today. I too have watched and heard with great disappointment , but no surprise , the recurring narrative emanating from President Trump and the… Continue reading

“Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group”

August 20, 2020, 4:05 pmcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: 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 launchtea-partyprotests a decade ago… Continue reading

North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering King David Lewis Resigns, Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Case Touching on Separate NCGOP Bribery Scandal

August 20, 2020, 1:18 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

I expect we will hear much more about this.

“Trump Phone Calls Add to Lingering Questions About Russian Interference”

August 19, 2020, 8:51 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: More than 200 pages into a sprawling, 1,000-page report on Russian election interference, the Senate Intelligence Committee made a startling conclusion endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats: Donald J. Trump knew of and discussed stolen Democratic emails at critical… Continue reading

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