The Fight Against Disinformation Is Getting Harder
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DID YOU KNOW THAT 29 PERCENT of Americans believe voting machines were programmed to change votes in the 2020 election? Or that nearly a third of Americans—31 percent—say it is “definitely or probably true” that Barack Obama was not born in the United States?
These were among the findings from a YouGov survey conducted last November—one that also found that 23 percent of Americans believe mass shootings “have been faked by groups trying to promote stricter gun control law,” that 20 percent feel the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 terror attacks, and that 18 percent think the 1969 moon landing was probably or definitely a hoax “staged somewhere in Arizona.”
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A study in Senate cowardice… Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic on the cowardice of people like Rob Portman.
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Wisconsin voters approve changes… based on false election claim, reports Philip Bump in the Washington Post.
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