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President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats and former Vice President Joe Biden are attempting to “steal” the election are gaining momentum on social media, plunging Facebook and Twitter into the most dangerous and volatile period since Election Day. Goaded by prominent conservatives, …
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WASHINGTON — Republican reaction to President Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud ranged widely Friday, from vigorous agreement to sharp condemnations, and in between some carefully constructed statements supporting the idea of fair elections without any endorsement of the president’s …
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has not addressed Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud. But in a Friday tweet, he wrote, “Every legal vote should be counted. Any illegally-submitted ballots must not. All sides must get to observe the process. And the courts are here to apply the …
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On a day in August when President Trump promoted law enforcement efforts to fight election misconduct as part of his false narrative about rampant voter fraud, the Justice Department was already quietly at work on the issue. In a memo to top prosecutors across the country earlier that day, the …
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Before the polls were even closed on Election Day, the fantastical and evidence-free conspiracy theories about voter fraud were flying fast and furious from various corners of Trumpworld. That same day, the journalist Issac Saul began documenting and debunking as many voter fraud conspiracy …
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President Trump’s bellicose pledge to fight the outcome of the election in the courts crashed on Friday into skeptical judges, daunting Electoral College math and a lack of evidence for his claims of fraud. On a day that began with vote tallies in Georgia and Pennsylvania tipping in Joseph R. Biden …
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Since losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots in 2016, Donald Trump has regularly used election fraud allegations to hide his political shortcomings. But his claims in a statement read in the White House briefing room Thursday night are dangerous to American democracy. Trump claimed …
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Facebook and TikTok have blocked hashtags that were being used to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about the presidential election. The hashtags generally revolved around unfounded claims that Democrats are trying to manipulate the election to defeat President Trump. On Facebook, the …
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Conspiracy theories have made their way into mainstream politics, with QAnon and misinformation about large-scale voter fraud among the most visible. Today we talk about a new study on misinformation and conspiracy theories around the 2020 election. We talk to the co-author behind that study find …
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An unidentified protester (right) interrupts a news conference about the ballot counting in Las Vegas, Nev. on Wednesday. Getty Images LONDON (Project Syndicate)—President Donald Trump, perhaps unsurprisingly, has alleged fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election, without offering what anyone would …
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