Misinformation / Disinformation Watch

Study: Republicans Respond to Political Polarization by Spreading Misinformation, Democrats Don't This Journal of Marketing study finds Republicans react to political polarization by sharing misinformation. The study calls for stronger fact-checking, media literacy education, and less polarizing r...

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How U.S. Presidential elections strengthen global hate networks - npj Complexity npj Complexity - How U.S. Presidential elections strengthen global hate networks

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How Project 2025 Would Endanger Our Elections While we don’t know how much of Project 2025 President-elect Trump will implement when he takes office, we do know that he has deep ties to the people who wrote it—and we know that its proposals around elections and voting could dramatically undermine participation in the democratic process.

While we don’t know how much of #Project2025 President-elect Trump will enact, his ties to its architects are clear. Ahead of his second term, UCS’s Liza Gordon-Rogers explains how Project 2025 could undermine free, fair, and secure elections.

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MSNBC Viewership Craters 38%, CNN 27%, While Fox News Audience Jumps 41% Post-Election MSNBC and CNN have shed hundreds of thousands of viewers while Fox News viewership has skyrocketed after the election

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Don’t underestimate the Rogansphere. His mammoth ecosystem is Fox News for young people | Sam Wolfson Podcasts like Joe Rogan’s and Theo Von’s aren’t on the fringes. Their blend of off-the-cuff, Trump-leaning commentary blurs traditional lines between left and right – and offers listeners companionshi...

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This account is very likely fake. Not run by Bernie Sanders or his team.

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How disinformation defined the 2024 election narrative Disinformation shaped views about the candidates, affected how voters saw leader performance, and generated widespread media attention.

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I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

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Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers find WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government’s response, part of a wider effort b...

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Voters’ ‘moral flexibility’ helps them defend politicians’ misinformation − if they believe the inaccurate info speaks to a larger truth In a series of surveys, researchers studied when and why voters put up with inaccurate statements from their leaders.

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Trump didn't win — disinformation did America has made a terrible mistake. Despite everything we’ve seen from the right, voters have nonetheless moved toward it. Rather than the mandate Trump/Musk/Christo nationalists are claiming from th...

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Russia is behind viral disinformation targeting Walz, intelligence official says A senior U.S. intelligence official says viral online content spreading baseless attacks on Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was created by Russia.

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The MAGA propaganda machine helped carry Trump back to the White House — and it’s not done poisoning America

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Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X' His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."

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