A false narrative suggesting that over half a million migrants had registered to vote in swing states shows how quickly misinformation can spread — and how…
A false narrative suggesting that over half a million migrants had registered to vote in swing states shows how quickly misinformation can spread — and how difficult it is to stop falsely suggest that hundreds of thousands of migrants may have registered
The X post that triggered this latest wave of migrant voting misinformation used publicly available federal data from the Texas, Pennsylvania and Arizona requested the Social Security Administration to verify a voter’s identity using their Social Security numbers. Media Matters, a left-leaning nonprofit media watchdog, provided NBC News with 10 examples of social media posts published on Meta’s platforms, most of them from Facebook, that amplified the false claim from X. Nearly two weeks after the claims in the posts had been publicly debunked, the social media company hadNBC News sent links for the 10 posts to a Meta representative. Hours later, Meta labeled all the posts as false. and label them as false.
Kenner said she believes “there’s bad actors that are absolutely putting bad information” on social media to cast doubt over the electoral process “with the intent to suppress votes.”
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