“Social Media and Democracy The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform”
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Category Archives: campaigns
“Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group”
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
“Trump Phone Calls Add to Lingering Questions About Russian Interference”
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
“Bipartisan Senate report describes 2016 Trump campaign eager to accept help from foreign power”
NBC News:
In a thousand-page bipartisan report released Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee said the Trump administration obstructed its investigation with “novel claims” of executive privilege. It painted a portrait of a Trump campaign eager to accept help from a… Continue reading
“Legal Loopholes Leave the U.S. Vulnerable to Election Interference; Report finds Russia, China, and other countries have spent over $300 million to influence the democratic process in countries around the world.”
Foreign Policy:
Authoritarian regimes including Russia and China have spent more than $300 million over the past decade to interfere in political processes of dozens of other countries around the world, according to a new report released Tuesday by… Continue reading
“Trump’s Policies Are a Boon to the Super Rich. So Where Are All the Seven-Figure Checks?”
NYT:
Mr. Trump is hardly lacking for cash; he has received huge numbers of small donations online from a fervent grass-roots base, and he raised a jaw-dropping $165 million in July for his campaign and the two fund-raising committees that… Continue reading
Is Kanye West Breaking the Law By Coordinating with the Trump Campaign While Running for President? Perhaps
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about whether Kanye West, who is running for President and getting on the ballots in at least a few states, is somehow breaking campaign finance law by doing so given the… Continue reading
“Trump campaign ad manipulates three images to put Biden in a ‘basement’”
WaPo:
The Pinocchio Test
Two of these photos fall under the category of “doctored” in the Fact Checker’s Guide to Manipulated Video. In the most egregious case, one image literally takes Biden from a nature preserve and puts him… Continue reading
“Kanye West Indicates That His Spoiler Campaign is Indeed Designed to Hurt Biden”
Forbes:
Amid various reports that Republican and Trump-affiliated political operatives are trying to get Kanye West onto various state ballots for November’s presidential election, the billionaire rap superstar indicated, in an interview by text today, that he was in… Continue reading
“Republican operatives are helping Kanye West get on general election ballots”
CNN:
Republican operatives, some with ties to President Donald Trump, are actively helping Kanye West get on presidential general election ballots in states ranging from Vermont to Arkansas to Wisconsin.The effort is raising questions about whether Republicans are pushing… Continue reading
“Instagram Displayed Negative Related Hashtags For Biden, But Hid Them For Trump”
Buzzfeed:
For at least the last two months, a key Instagram feature, which algorithmically pushes users toward supposedly related content, has been treating hashtags associated with President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in very different… Continue reading
“Group that wanted to call state lawmaker ‘literally Hitler’ in campaign mailer wins First Amendment case”
Tennessean:
A group that wanted to skewer a Tennessee state representative as “literally Hitler” in a mailer has successfully challenged a law that blocked false speech, including satire, against candidates in campaign literature.Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws created a… Continue reading