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Our new taskforce report:

Fair Elections During a Crisis: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech to Advance the Legitimacy of, & the Public’s Confidence in, the Nov. 2020 US Elections
law.uci.edu/faculty/full-t…

Please read! We offer 14 actionable recommendations.
A key factor in preserving 2020 election legitimacy - explaining the process. The winner will likely not be known on election night due to the time required to carefully count mail ballots. Important for media to prepare and to explain to the public: law.uci.edu/faculty/full-t…
Detailed thread on the report and our recommendations from the great @rickhasen, who led the effort
More in this interview with @rickhasen
The executive summary and recommendations of our report on protecting the legitimacy of the 2020 election - now easier to read on a mobile device!
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The Trump administration is about to learn that you can't BS your way past a disease. Viruses don't care that you are denying reality and falsify your claims when you do. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Viruses don't care that you are denying reality.
Viruses don't care that you are denying reality.
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At some point, this stuff will be everywhere (and there's a lot). The only question is when. washingtonpost.com/outlook/damned…
Cognitive dissonance has not proven to be an obstacle thus far
For context, see this thread. The clip is only one part of a much longer video that is more balanced. My point is that he has a pattern of surprisingly positive statements about various awful regimes that will be used against him (but hasn't been yet)
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Very worrisome - we've never seen such an ambitious and coordinated effort to destroy confidence in the American information ecosystem. Many tactics are disturbingly reminiscent of those used in authoritarian countries.
In the @mckaycoppins piece, he notes that Republicans plan to attack the local news ecosystem as well, including using the fake local sites I wrote about in @UpshotNYT (nytimes.com/2019/10/31/ups…) to seed damaging articles about opposing candidates theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
@mckaycoppins @UpshotNYT However, warnings about the persuasive effects of microtargeting are overstated and the corrosive effects of misinfo exposure on trust in news that @mckaycoppins experienced have not been definitely established. We need to learn more quickly, though, given the plans in place.
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