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The long fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 election
Wed, Mar 3, 2021 3:00 PM
A conversation on the release of the Election Integrity Partnership’s report, “The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election”
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The Long Fuse: Misinformation in the 2020 Election, the public launch of a comprehensive report tracking mis- and disinformation in the 2020 election cycle. The report was produced by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a coalition of research institutions that worked together to detect and mitigate viral misinformation and to support the real-time information exchange between the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, and social media platforms.
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QAnon followers believe Trump will be inaugurated as president this month
Followers of the right wing
QAnon conspiracy theory are looking forward to a couple big dates in March 2021: March 4 and 20, specifically.
QAnon believers say any day in March the former President Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President once again.
This is not true. Donald Trump will not become President of the United States this month, just weeks after Joe Biden was inaugurated.Â
These facts do not matter to QAnon conspiracy theorists, though. Some QAnon believers are keeping a broader timeline in mind, including the entire month of March, says Atlantic Council s Digital Forensic Research Lab resident fellow Jared Holt, who tracks right wing extremism. Many of the justifications for those dates stem from worn-out theories that can be traced back to the sovereign citizen movement. (The sovereign citizen movement is an extremist right wing anti-government idea that believes they are not s