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“A Popular Political Site Made a Sharp Right Turn. What Steered It?”
NYT:
Interviews with current and former Real Clear staff members, along with a review of its coverage and tax filings, point to a shift to the right within the organization in late 2017, when the bulk of its journalists who… Continue reading
“Facebook Knows That Adding Labels To Trump’s False Claims Does Little To Stop Their Spread”
BuzzFeed:
The labels Facebook has been putting on false election posts from President Donald Trump have failed to slow their spread across the platform, according to internal data seen by BuzzFeed News.In the aftermath of the 2020 US presidential election,… Continue reading
“Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy”
The Atlantic:
Two issues that run deeper for Obama than Trump’s personal deficiencies concern the changes he sees in the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement. “I did not believe how easily the Republican establishment, people who had been… Continue reading
“Four viral videos falsely suggest ‘voter fraud’ led to Biden’s victory”
WaPo Fact Checker.
News organizations have called the 2020 presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden, but that hasn’t stopped President Trump’s surrogates from sharing misleading, fake and debunked videos that cast doubt on the election results.Follow the latest on … Continue reading
“Twitter, Facebook face rocky future post-Donald Trump”
Roll Call:
Both Facebook and Twitter went into Election Day under enormous pressure from both parties, but in the end it was Trump and other Republicans whose posts were labeled most often for containing misleading or false information about the… Continue reading
“Misinformation by a thousand cuts: Varied rigged election claims circulate”
NBC News:
For Trump supporters intent on finding it, proof of the president’s claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” is everywhere.For some, it’s in the videos: the one in which a Colorado man claiming to be a poll worker,… Continue reading
“YouTube Election Loophole Lets Some False Trump-Win Videos Spread”
Bloomberg:
On Monday, cable outlet One America News Network posted two videos to its YouTube account titled “Trump won.” The clips echoed several others telling viewers, falsely, that U.S. President Donald Trump was re-elected and that the vote was marred… Continue reading
“Disinformation and falsehoods about Biden’s victory flood social media and search engines.”
NYT:
As President Trump and his team continue to circulate fabricated claims of a stolen election and voter fraud, their allies are flooding the internet search engines and social media with falsehoods intended to question the legitimacy of President-elect Joseph… Continue reading
“‘Stop the Steal’ supporters, restrained by Facebook, turn to Parler to peddle false election claims”
WaPo:
The leader of a Facebook group demanding an election recount told members this weekend he was worried about a crackdown by the social media giant.“The bigger we get, the more nervous I’m getting,” the administrator of Nationwide Recount 2020… Continue reading
“False News Targeting Latinos Trails the Election; Rampant falsehoods evolved online on Wednesday, intended to make Spanish speakers question the unfolding election results and believe that President Trump was being robbed of victory.”
NYT:
The posts proliferated on election night before anything remotely definitive was known about the results of the presidential race. “Robado,” they falsely repeated again and again in Spanish: President Trump was being robbed of a victory. He had won… Continue reading
“The Next 2020 Election Fight? Convincing Trump’s Supporters That He Lost”
Miles Parks for NPR:
Even though all the major news networks, including Fox News, called the race for former Vice President Joe Biden, Saturday was the only the beginning of a long road to convincing a sizable portion of the… Continue reading
“Viral ‘ballot’ burning video shared by Eric Trump is fake”
CNN Business:
A viral video that purports to show about 80 “ballots,” all for Donald Trump, being burned is fake, Virginia Beach city officials say.The video, which surfaced on Tuesday, features a man with a plastic bag full of… Continue reading
Still Not Normal and Deeply Disturbing: President Trump Falsely States That Supreme Court Ruling on Pennsylvania Ballots Will Lead to Cheating and “will also induce violence in the streets”
Hidden behind a Twitter warning that “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process,” President Trump tweeted the following:
The Supreme Court decision on… Continue reading