Showing posts with label conspriacy theories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conspriacy theories. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

A torrent of Election Day disinformation is coming. Here’s how to avoid falling for it.; Politico, November 5, 2024

 JOHN SAKELLARIADIS, Politico; A torrent of Election Day disinformation is coming. Here’s how to avoid falling for it.

"Haitian immigrants did not vote multiple times for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia, and poll workers in Pennsylvania did not destroy ballots for Trump, though a pair of videos that went viral in the last 10 days would have you think otherwise.

Both were fabrications of Kremlin influence actors, the U.S. intelligence community has said, and late Monday, it released a new statement calling out “additional influence operations” from Russia...

America’s adversaries “likely learned lessons” from the political turmoil that engulfed the U.S. after Election Day in 2020, senior U.S. intelligence officials told reporters last month. That means Russia, China and Iran are likely to amp up their efforts to spread lies and even incite violence between Election Day and inauguration.

One key defense is to refer any pressing questions to your local officials. “The bottom line when it comes to mis- and disinformation is that voters need to go to the source, and the source is your local and your state election officials,” said Marci Andino, the senior director of the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center."

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Elon Musk And Marjorie Taylor Greene Rehash Debunked Dominion Vote-Stealing Conspiracy; Forbes, October 19, 2024

 Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes; Elon Musk And Marjorie Taylor Greene Rehash Debunked Dominion Vote-Stealing Conspiracy

"Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., this week pushed theories about Dominion Voting Systems, the vote-counting machines widely used in U.S. elections, threatening to revive the conspiracies spread by Donald Trump and his allies in 2020 that sowed chaos—and were repeatedly debunked."