Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
05-08-2022, 06:06 AM
https://news.yahoo.com/misinformation-may-only-worsen-black-101148029.html
NBC News
Misinformation may only worsen for Black voters in lead-up to election, experts warn
Sergio Flores
Donna M. Owens
Tue, May 3, 2022, 5:11 AM
Expert witnesses have warned members of Congress that misinformation targeting Black voters and other voters of color is likely to intensify as the midterm elections unfold.
Joi Chaney, the executive director of the National Urban League’s Washington bureau, testified Thursday in a virtual hearing of the House Administration subcommittee on elections that the civil rights organization had noted an “increasing number of disinformation campaigns that directly target Black communities and the civil rights that have long been fought for.”
“Further, these disinformation attacks on Black communities are also a broader attack on our democracy and a threat to the national security of this nation,” she said.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., who chairs the subcommittee, called “misinformation, disinformation and malinformation” a “threat to our democracy and the free, fair and equitable access to the ballot every voter is entitled to.”
The practice of misinforming voters “has been weaponized and targeted at communities of color by racist and antidemocratic actors who seek to intimidate voters of color and discourage them from participating in the democratic process,” Butterfield said. “Voters of color are targeted with disinformation narratives specifically designed to appeal to each community’s concerns in ways that will alienate voters and suppress turnout.”
A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election found that “no single group of Americans was targeted by … information operatives more than African-Americans.”
Tactics that were cited were as varied as the creation of inauthentic social media accounts that posed as Black influencers to a meme that targeted Black and Latino voters on Facebook and Twitter with the message “avoid the line — vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
Stephanie Valencia, the president of Equis, a group of organizations working to invest in Latino voting, and Emily Chi, the director of telecommunications, technology and media for Asian Americans Advancing Justice, testified that communities of color, including immigrants, will be further targeted in the lead-up to the elections in November.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., who chairs the subcommittee, called “misinformation, disinformation and malinformation” a “threat to our democracy and the free, fair and equitable access to the ballot every voter is entitled to.”
Look- they got an expert on disinformation, one Butterfield a dem POS from N.C. to head the subcommittee and proclaim them, the patriotic, tender, kind, benevolent and ever vigilant dems. as our saviors.
Here is how the Biden admin and the dem party plans on using this new weapon they are attempting to install.
They set it up where--THEY--are the authority on this so-called misinformation.
And as the -"AUTHORITY", you can bet your last dollar, the new gods will vilify the Republicans, and all that tend to vote Republican.
This new scheme is the dem party setting up its gestapo apparatus to use to destroy political opposition.
Anybody that fails to see that TRUTH/REALITY, that immense danger, is apparently either stone-cold blind or else is on a lower moron level in the IQ department, imho.- :saluting2:
NBC News
Misinformation may only worsen for Black voters in lead-up to election, experts warn
Sergio Flores
Donna M. Owens
Tue, May 3, 2022, 5:11 AM
Expert witnesses have warned members of Congress that misinformation targeting Black voters and other voters of color is likely to intensify as the midterm elections unfold.
Joi Chaney, the executive director of the National Urban League’s Washington bureau, testified Thursday in a virtual hearing of the House Administration subcommittee on elections that the civil rights organization had noted an “increasing number of disinformation campaigns that directly target Black communities and the civil rights that have long been fought for.”
“Further, these disinformation attacks on Black communities are also a broader attack on our democracy and a threat to the national security of this nation,” she said.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., who chairs the subcommittee, called “misinformation, disinformation and malinformation” a “threat to our democracy and the free, fair and equitable access to the ballot every voter is entitled to.”
The practice of misinforming voters “has been weaponized and targeted at communities of color by racist and antidemocratic actors who seek to intimidate voters of color and discourage them from participating in the democratic process,” Butterfield said. “Voters of color are targeted with disinformation narratives specifically designed to appeal to each community’s concerns in ways that will alienate voters and suppress turnout.”
A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election found that “no single group of Americans was targeted by … information operatives more than African-Americans.”
Tactics that were cited were as varied as the creation of inauthentic social media accounts that posed as Black influencers to a meme that targeted Black and Latino voters on Facebook and Twitter with the message “avoid the line — vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
Stephanie Valencia, the president of Equis, a group of organizations working to invest in Latino voting, and Emily Chi, the director of telecommunications, technology and media for Asian Americans Advancing Justice, testified that communities of color, including immigrants, will be further targeted in the lead-up to the elections in November.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., who chairs the subcommittee, called “misinformation, disinformation and malinformation” a “threat to our democracy and the free, fair and equitable access to the ballot every voter is entitled to.”
Look- they got an expert on disinformation, one Butterfield a dem POS from N.C. to head the subcommittee and proclaim them, the patriotic, tender, kind, benevolent and ever vigilant dems. as our saviors.
Here is how the Biden admin and the dem party plans on using this new weapon they are attempting to install.
They set it up where--THEY--are the authority on this so-called misinformation.
And as the -"AUTHORITY", you can bet your last dollar, the new gods will vilify the Republicans, and all that tend to vote Republican.
This new scheme is the dem party setting up its gestapo apparatus to use to destroy political opposition.
Anybody that fails to see that TRUTH/REALITY, that immense danger, is apparently either stone-cold blind or else is on a lower moron level in the IQ department, imho.- :saluting2: