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Video Links and Quotes from Today’s Media Briefing: 2022 Election Countdown
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New York Times: Letters, Tweets, TV: How Midterm Disinformation Has Washed Over Pennsylvania
“They don’t really know what to believe,” she said.
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Washington Post: GOP push to monitor voting in Texas’s Harris County spurs outcry
One Black voter complained to the hotline that when he showed up to vote at a polling...
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Associated Press: Musk boosts surge in misinformation about Pelosi attack
“Rather than cave in to conspiracy theorists and propaganda peddlers, we urge Musk to ensure Twitter’s rules and enforcement practices reflect our values of democracy and public safety,” Getachew said.
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Elon Musk Twitter Acquisition Poses Risks to Our Democracy
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Daily Beast: Why Trump Is Ramming Piles of Cash Through a Campaign Loophole
“Coordination is still certainly illegal here, although the FEC has shown next to no appetite for enforcing coordination rules and laws. There’s not a smoking gun here per se, but it seems like exploitation of a loophole, and three GOP commissioners have shown zero willingness to investigate and enforce existing coordination laws,” Scherb said. “Until they...
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HuffPost: The 2022 Election Nightmare Has Already Started
The lies Republicans spread about the post-election vote count highlight a mostly overlooked aspect of elections: that they do not end on Election Day. Ballots must be processed, counted,...
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Reuters: With U.S. midterms ahead, Musk’s Twitter takeover raises fear of misinformation wave
"Content moderation policies are only effective if there are people there to enforce them and systems in place to ensure they are being enforced. If those rules are going to be out the window, that is going to be incredibly harmful."
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Inside Sources/Tribune News Service (Op-Ed): MAGA Republicans Plot to Nationalize Voter Suppression
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New York Times: Running Against Hochul, Lee Zeldin Finds Another Target: Alvin Bragg
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Common Cause, SCSJ Detail Legal Strategy to Protect Democracy in Upcoming SCOTUS Case
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New Report: Extremists’ Plot to Nationalize Voter Suppression: 2023 and Beyond