Summary of Richard L. Hasen's Cheap Speech

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#1 The biggest distributor of election disinformation in the 2020 U. S. presidential election was not a group of Russian hackers, but President Donald Trump. He spread the Big Lie that he had won an election he had actually lost decisively to Joe Biden, and this led to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the U. Capitol and violent insurrection by Trump supporters.

#2 Trump’s claims about voting and election fraud were rampant in the first half of 2020, and he made sure to share them on social media. However, these claims were proven false, and led to a blue shift in the reporting of results.

#3 Trump continued to make false claims of voter fraud even after it was clear that Biden had won. He called the election rigged or stolen, and tried to get Republican state legislatures to select Trump electors.

#4 Trump had a receptive audience. Right-wing personalities such as members of the president’s family were among the superspreaders, who shared a false narrative about election fraud costing Trump the presidency.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822544451

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#1

The biggest distributor of election disinformation in the 2020 U. S. presidential election was not a group of Russian hackers, but President Donald Trump. He spread the Big Lie that he had won an election he had actually lost decisively to Joe Biden, and this led to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the U. Capitol and violent insurrection by Trump supporters.

#2

Trump’s claims about voting and election fraud were rampant in the first half of 2020, and he made sure to share them on social media. However, these claims were proven false, and led to a blue shift in the reporting of results.

#3

Trump continued to make false claims of voter fraud even after it was clear that Biden had won. He called the election rigged or stolen, and tried to get Republican state legislatures to select Trump electors.

#4

Trump had a receptive audience. Right-wing personalities such as members of the president’s family were among the superspreaders, who shared a false narrative about election fraud costing Trump the presidency.

#5

Social media companies had to deal with Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the integrity of the election system. Twitter slapped a label on a pair of

Reviews for Summary of Richard L. Hasen's Cheap Speech

[Paul · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I've read and learned a lot from Rick Hasen's essays on election law and related issue, and expected to learn something new here as well. Unfortunately, as presented here, anyone who follows the coverage of misinfo and disinfo in US politics will be familiar with most of what is presented in this sum. Also, it is just a bunch of enumerated paragraphs without any discussion of the larger themes that tie all these facts about misinfo and disinfo together. Either the sum fails to do justice to the book, or the book is rather insipid. Until I take a look at Hasen's book I can't tell which. But it was pretty much fluff for anyone who already knows a few things about the subject matter. I've read more interesting and informative magazine articles on related topics.