Facebook, Twitter have hands full with postal voting misinformation
Researchers are raising concerns about the level of fake claims being spread by social media users
05 October 2020 - 16:38
Washington — In August, a video posted on social media by a Florida woman named Tina Brown outlined what she said were potential hazards with mail-in election ballots.
Brown said envelopes for registered Democratic voters included a D in the bar code, while envelopes for Republicans contained an R. She then asserted that a left-leaning mail carrier could use the identifiers to suppress Republican votes while saying “let’s just chuck it”...
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