{"id":3743,"date":"2020-11-03T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2020-11-03T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:01:08","slug":"the-president-not-social-media-is-largely-responsible-for-disinformation-about-mail-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"The president, not social media, is largely responsible for disinformation about mail-in voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society released a working paper<\/a> studying mail-in voting disinformation campaigns. Using a quantitative and qualitative study of millions of tweets and tens of thousands of Facebook posts and news stories about mail-in voter fraud \u2014 the persistent but debunked<\/a> idea that people are illegally using mail-in ballots to meaningfully sway elections \u2014 the study found that President Trump was largely responsible for spreading that disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, the study found that the president himself, on Twitter as well as through press conferences and interviews, was the main source of falsehoods about mail-in voter fraud. In turn, right-wing media organizations and media organizations in general abetted the spread of that disinformation by uncritically parroting it without full context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intention is to get people to believe mail-in voting is faulty precisely as 80 million people are set to vote by mail this year, due to the coronavirus<\/a>. Uncertainty about the mail-in voting process has the potential to subdue voter turnout and undermine faith in the outcome of the upcoming election<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is hardly the only disinformation campaign being led by Trump this year. A recent Cornell study<\/a> found the president to be the largest driver of coronavirus disinformation as well. In conjunction with lies about mail-in voting, these two campaigns not only jeopardize the health of millions of Americans but also stand to sway the election results.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2020\/10\/14\/21514136\/president-trump-disinformation-mail-in-voting-interview-yochai-benkler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society released a working paper studying mail-in voting disinformation campaigns. Using a quantitative and qualitative study of millions of tweets and tens of thousands of Facebook posts and news stories about mail-in voter fraud \u2014 the persistent but debunked idea that people are illegally using mail-in ballots to meaningfully sway elections \u2014 the study found that President Trump was largely responsible for spreading that disinformation.<\/p>\n

In particular, the study found that the president himself, on Twitter as well as through press conferences and interviews, was the main source of falsehoods about mail-in voter fraud. In turn, right-wing media organizations and media organizations in general abetted the spread of that disinformation by uncritically parroting it without full context.<\/p>\n

The intention is to get people to believe mail-in voting is faulty precisely as 80 million people are set to vote by mail this year, due to the coronavirus. Uncertainty about the mail-in voting process has the potential to subdue voter turnout and undermine faith in the outcome of the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

This is hardly the only disinformation campaign being led by Trump this year. A recent Cornell study found the president to be the largest driver of coronavirus disinformation as well. In conjunction with lies about mail-in voting, these two campaigns not only jeopardize the health of millions of Americans but also stand to sway the election results.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,132,1029,323,170],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-misleading","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}