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How Parler, a Chosen App of Trump Fans, Became a Test of Free Speech

New York Times
January 11, 2021

Parler grew slowly until early 2020, when Twitter began labeling Mr. Trump’s tweets[1] as inaccurate and some of his supporters joined Parler in protest. After November’s election, Parler grew even…

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‘Be There. Will Be Wild!’: Trump All but Circled the Date

New York Times
January 7, 2021

For weeks, President Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to “save America” and “stop the…

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Twitter Locks Trump’s Account After Violence on Capitol Hill

New York Times
January 7, 2021

Those alternative social media sites were rife with Trump supporters organizing and communicating on Wednesday. On Parler, one trending hashtag was #stormthecapitol. Many Trump supporters on the sites also appeared…

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How Gabriel Sterling Debunked Trump’s Georgia Fraud Claims, Point by Point

New York Times
January 5, 2021

TRUMP’S CLAIM: That tens of thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots. STERLING’S EXPLANATION: The actual number of ballots cast by ineligible voters is minuscule, and nowhere near enough to change…

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Georgia Senate Runoff Targeted by Misinformation 'Superspreaders'

New York Times
December 22, 2020

“We’re taking every opportunity to connect people to reliable information about the election,” Mr. McAlister said. He said the company was also “deploying the teams and technology we used in…

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Two Reasons the Texas Election Case Is Faulty

New York Times
December 11, 2020

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has asked the Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: disenfranchise millions of voters in four states and reverse the results…

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He Pretended to Be Trump’s Family. Then Trump Fell for It.

New York Times
December 8, 2020

Josiah Bruns, an engineer from Goffstown, N.H., donated $100. With his donation, he left a comment: “Uncle Rob Trump asked me too.” Mr. Bruns said in an interview that a…

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How Joe Biden’s Digital Team Tamed the MAGA Internet

New York Times
December 6, 2020

Last April, when Rob Flaherty, the digital director for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, told me that the former vice president’s team planned to use feel-good videos and inspirational memes to…

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Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth

New York Times
November 24, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — In the tense days after the presidential election, a team of Facebook employees presented the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with an alarming finding: Election-related misinformation was going…

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How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories

New York Times
November 23, 2020

On the morning of Nov. 5, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, asked his Facebook followers to report cases of voter fraud with the hashtag, Stop the Steal. His…

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Presidential Election of 2020

How Gabriel Sterling Debunked Trump’s Georgia Fraud Claims, Point by Point

Two Reasons the Texas Election Case Is Faulty

How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories

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