Misinformation about Voting Crops Up Around the U.S. as Midterm Elections Near
It’s hard to determine what is disinformation, and who the actors are behind it.
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It’s hard to determine what is disinformation, and who the actors are behind it.
In Colorado, an error in early October involving voter registration postcards that were mailed to non-citizens in the state morphed into a conspiracy theory about voter fraud. In Iowa, voters
Musk said he consulted several 'civil society leaders' about how Twitter will 'combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies'
Nearly half of voters said social media platforms should restrict conspiracy theory content, but the others said the state should not be involved in its regulation.
Researchers said much of the misinformation they are seeing around the midterm elections about voting stems from falsehoods about election security and voter fraud that originated with the 2020 presidential election.