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FAKE NEWS, MISINFORMATION, & DISINFORMATION

  • News: Fake News, Misinformation & Disinformation (Library Guides/Bothell/News/Fake News, Misinformation & Disinformation) |
    Last Updated: Jul 2, 2021 2:05 PM

  • Fake News, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Learning to Critically Evaluate Media Sources: What Is Fake News?
    "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." --Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Newsweek, 25 August 1986, p. 27.
    Last Updated: Sep 10, 2021 11:41 AM

  • Post-Truth Politics (Wikipedia)

    DONALD TRUMP TO BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO HIS FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS AFTER A 2-YEAR BAN
  • Meta allows Donald Trump back on Facebook and Instagram
    By Shannon Bond, NPR.org | Updated January 25, 2023 6:24 PM ET |

  • Meta to restore Trump Facebook and Instagram accounts, reversing Jan. 6 Capitol attack ban
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today | Published 5:08 pm ET January 25, 2023 Updated 10:33 am ET January 26, 2023 |

    THE CONGRESSMAN-ELECT WHO LIED ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND, CREDENTIALS, ETC.
  • GOP Rep. George Santos gets House committee seats despite blowback
    By Erin Doherty and Andrew Solender, Axios.com | Updated January 17, 2023 |

  • McCarthy’s George Santos problem
    By Andrew Solender, Axios.com | January 11, 2023 |

  • N.Y. Rep.-elect George Santos is being investigated for lying about his past
    By the Associated Press, as seen on NPR.org | December 29, 2022 1:32 AM ET |

  • Federal prosecutors open investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos over congressional campaign The New York Republican has admitted that large parts of his campaign biography were fabricated.
    By Michael Kosnar, Tom Winter and Dareh Gregorian, NBC News.com | December 29, 2022 2:40 PM CST |
    THE RED WAVE THAT WASN'T
  • The red wave that wasn't: 5 takeaways from a disappointing night for the GOP Donald Trump’s favored candidates prove a drag to Republicans, running well behind others in their party.
    By David Siders, Politico | November 9, 2022 03:31 AM EST |

  • The guy who got the midterms right explains what the media got wrong The media fell for a false "red wave" narrative.
    By Nicole Narea, Vox.com | November 27, 2022, 7:00am EST |

  • Days after disclosing election "audits" in four Texas counties, secretary of state’s office gives some details of their scope: The state agency last week announced a "full forensic audit" in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties. But based on details released Tuesday, it appears the scope of the effort may be more limited than what the term may suggest.
    by Alexa Ura, Texas Tribune | Sept. 28, 2021 8 PM Central |

  • Democrats, GOP Push Back Against Partisan Election Audits
    By: Matt Vasilogambros, Pew Trusts | September 8, 2021 |

  • Bad-faith Election Audits Are Sabotaging Democracy Across the Nation
    by Gowri Ramachandran and Matthew Germer, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law | August 4, 2021 |

  • A roundup of results from Tuesday's key primaries that took place in 5 states The elections led to some notable results when it comes to former President Trump's endorsements, Republicans who voted for his impeachment and election deniers.
    By A Martinez and Domenico Montanaro, NPR | August 3, 2022 5:10 AM ET | Heard on Morning Edition |
    QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
    "In the secretary of state's race, a Trump-backed conspiracy theorist and election denier won the GOP nomination. Mark Finchem is now the sixth election denier across the country to win the Republican nomination for a job that would control election administration in states. Four of those places are in key presidential swing states, A - Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and now Arizona."

  • Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas GOP Rep. Kenny Jackson go all in with Twitter, Gmail conspiracy claims
    | By Benjamin Wermund, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau | May 10, 2022 Updated: May 10, 2022 3:44 p.m. |

    QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
    "Texas Republicans are going all in on theories that tech companies such as Google and Twitter are censoring conservatives, a growing gripe on the right that experts say is largely unfounded.

    U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson of Amarillo was the latest, tweeting Tuesday that Gmail is "actively suppressing" Republican fundraising pitches: "ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Big Tech is out of CONTROL!!"

  • Warning of a democracy in peril, Harvard scholars join national call for federal action to protect elections: Eleven Harvard politics scholars, including six from HKS, among 100 who signed statement declaring "our entire democracy is now at risk."
    June 08, 2021 Harvard Kennedy School [i.e. John F. Kennedy School of Government]

  • Statement of Concern: The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards | June 1, 2021 |

  • Crisis of Confidence How Election 2020 Was Different
    by Robert Griffin and Mayesha Quasem, Voter Study Group.org | June 2021 |

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