“Digital Disinformation and Vote Suppression”
New Brennan Center report.
Category Archives: campaigns
Suit Seeking to Kick Kanye West Off Virginia Ballot Alleges That *At Least* Three People Listed as West Electors Had Their Signatures Obtained via Fraud
You can find the complaint at this link. As Ben Jacobs noted the other day, this may be the first time a candidate for President has been sued by one of the candidate’s purported presidential electors.
“Barr tightens rules on surveillance of political candidates and advisers”
WaPo:
Attorney General William P. Barr imposed new rules Tuesday tightening the use of government surveillance on political candidates or their staffers — a move likely to cheer conservatives who have long criticized how the FBI investigated the Trump… Continue reading
“Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail”
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
“What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”
Kevin Roose for the NYT:
Listen, liberals. If you don’t think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook.Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on… 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.”
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
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
“Social Media and Democracy The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform”
Can’t wait to dig into this volume edited by Nate Persily and Joshua Tucker, with free access from Cambridge. Thanks Cambridge!
“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