Black And Latino Voters Flooded With Disinformation In Election's Final Days
Hoaxes and misleading posts aimed at depressing turnout have spread on social media. Experts say it outpaces 2016, when Black voters were the top target of Russian-backed disinformation.
by Shannon Bond
Oct 30, 2020
4 minutes
Murphy Bannerman first noticed the posts this summer, in a Facebook group called Being Black in Arizona.
Someone started posting memes full of false claims that seemed designed to discourage people from voting.
The memes were "trying to push this narrative of, 'The system is a mess and there's no point in you participating,'" Bannerman said. She recalled statements like, "'Democrats and Republicans are the same. There's no point in voting.' 'Obama didn't do anything for you during his term, why should you vote for a Democrat this time around?'"
Bannerman was alarmed. She had already been on high
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