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Associated Press: In election misinformation fight, ’2020 changed everything’
During the 2020 election, platforms applied fact checks, labeled or removed more than 300 pieces of popular, false content that...
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Kansas City Star/McClatchy: ‘I’m increasingly concerned’: New WyCo administrator still doing work for Kansas City
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Common Cause Scorecard Charts Lawmaker Support for Pro-Democracy Bills in 117th Congress
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New York Times: Will Eric Adams Release His Taxes? A Soft ‘No’ Is Now a Qualified ‘Yes.’
“This is not a gotcha question from the press — this is the sort of thing that real people on the street pay attention to,” she said. “The mayor shouldn’t be playing cat and mouse with something that should be an obvious transparency measure.”
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San Antonio Express-News: Could the highly political redistricting process be more independent? San Antonio may find out
“Plenty of people have tried creatively to get their way with the commission,” in California, Feng said. “But selecting a group of people who are savvy and listening for exactly that kind of thing makes them well inoculated to those lobbying efforts.”
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Politico: Campaign finance watchdog cracks down on untraceable super PAC donations
Spaulding previously worked as a senior aide for a former Democratic FEC commissioner.
But Friday’s decision will not end dark money entirely, Spaulding notes. “For...
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Cincinnati Magazine: THE CHAOS THEORY BEHIND OHIO’S REDISTRICTING FIASCO
Following the April 4 contempt hearing in the Ohio Supreme Court, Mia Lewis, associate director of Common Cause Ohio, told Spectrum News that the Republican strategy for the last year has been to run out the clock. “They said, ‘Oh, it was impossible to meet that (court) deadline.’ Well, yes, if you’re trying to make it...
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New York Daily News: Democrats back election law change to remove former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin from ballot
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Salon: “Unprecedented and dangerous”: Florida GOP gives up power to draw new district maps to Ron DeSantis
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Associated Press: Congress seeks input on election reform in New Mexico
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Grid: How Big Tech is quietly pushing for watered-down state privacy laws
Getachew noted that the implications of privacy laws extend well past traditional technology companies.
“A lot of the telecom companies have engaged in certain data practices that implicate them and privacy bills, and a lot of telecom companies are working businesses outside of the traditional telecom...
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Georgia Public Broadcasting: Ethics experts say Herschel Walker’s U.S. Senate financial disclosure bears further scrutiny
“According to this candidate’s financial disclosure form, no person or entity paid more than $5,000 for any services provided by him — at the same time, he disclosed an interest in an LLC valued at more than $25 million and that provides ‘business consulting and professional services,’” Spaulding said....