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Nov 17

@C4JDHowardU

🧵We had an amazing time at #CJDDemocracySummit yesterday for the launch of the inspiring @C4JDHowardU. Here is a thread of some of the greatest insights from speakers and panel discussions. Congratulations to @nhannahjones and her amazing team. 1/

@SIfill_

Counter to the emerging national media narrative that election liars were soundly defeated and barriers to the ballot box were overcome, @SIfill_ warned that the threat is not over. Until there is legislation preventing racial gerrymanders, they will not be stopped. 2/

@katiehobbs

We'll also point out the extremely obvious here that while it is true that @katiehobbs got roughly 1.28 million votes, lying extremist Kari Lake got roughly 1.26 million votes. Moving forward it will be absurd and dangerous for mainstream, corporate media to downplay threats. 3/

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Nov 8

🧵JOURNALISTS: Tomorrow and the next few weeks will be a MAGA created nightmare for democracy. You will see all of the same tactical lying and bogus lawsuits of 2020. You will see stochastic violence. DO NOT LEGITIMATE what amounts to a continuation of the Jan. 6 coup attempt. 1/

@DemocracyNowUS

Please consult the @DemocracyNowUS Election Denier Playbook (we wish they'd used "Election Liar"). It is your duty as a journalist to be aware of these strategies and call them out as anti-democratic, deceitful and immoral. 2/
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projectdefenddemocracy.com/wp-content/upl…

The so-called Brooks Brother’s Riot of 2000, which successfully halted vote counting and resulted in George W. Bush’s victory, is an example of the momentous efficacy of such tactics. Do not refer to any such strategies as "legitimate protest". 3/ washingtonpost.com/history/2018/1…

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Nov 1

@Salon

🧵We wrote in @Salon, "The 2022 midterms are a referendum on how well America's newsrooms have conveyed the authoritarian threat to the voting public."

We called on media to urgently uplift truth & democracy with election coverage. With a week to go... 1/
salon.com/2022/10/23/med…

@AP

Things aren't going great. We outline 3 main requirements for pro-democracy election coverage:
1) make threats to democracy clear
2) protect Americans against disinformation
3) treat elections as if they are more important than the sports page
This @AP article fails all 3.
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To make threats to democracy clear journalists need to stop saying stuff like candidates "embrace...Trump's lies about the...election." Candidates are lying all on their own. Say so. Timidity from newsrooms is creating a nationwide permission structure to "deny" elections. 3/

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Oct 18

@nytimes

🧵Let's examine the immorality of covering elections like a sport. @nytimes The Daily spent 25 minutes on "The Personal and Political Saga of Herschel Walker". The issues were not covered. The threat of MAGA fascism wasn't mentioned. Republicans were treated normally.
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"So after the 2020 presidential election and the 2021 Senate runoffs, Republicans had to do some soul searching, some recalibrating." Maya King mentions DJT's #BigLie but leaves out that the majority of Republicans in Congress also participated in the attempted coup.

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@mikiebarb

Then she and @mikiebarb have this exchange after we learn Walker put a gun to his ex's temple-

Barbaro: Wow. That’s pretty extraordinary.

King: It is, and it’s something that might otherwise disqualify a candidate with far less star power...than Herschel Walker.

Drama!

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@FixMediaNow

Oct 17

🧵As national news media perilously spreads anti-democracy candidate lies, here are examples of what pro-democracy, pro-truth election coverage can look like. Check out our guidelines and share them with a political reporter you know...immediately. 1/
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mediaanddemocracyproject.org/prodemocracyco…

@pbpost

It's imperative that pro-democracy newsrooms use forceful language to inoculate American voters against strategic election disinformation. Here's a great example from the @pbpost. Coverage must connect the #BigLie to the GOP effort to undermine faith in elections. 2/
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@npr

Pro-democracy newsrooms must uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. Here's a great example from @npr's @hansilowang. Poll workers are under MAGA attack. Celebrating them in feature articles makes them less ripe for GOP demonization. 3/ npr.org/2022/09/07/112…

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Oct 16

🧵Our national news media, describing lying GOP candidates as mere "skeptics," has taken sides in the battle for democracy. Fascists who lie about our electoral system aren't viable candidates for office. Media must stop softening their immorality. We need pro-truth frames. 1/

@ruthbenghiat

Fascism expert @ruthbenghiat explains: "The GOP's aim is to debase the whole idea of elections, so the fundamental democratic idea of relying on elections to choose leaders is compromised." The midterms are a referendum on how well America's newsrooms have conveyed the threat. 2/

Euphemisms like "election denier" convey validity to a strategic disinformation campaign. 70% of GOP voters believe lies they've been fed. News media creates a nationwide permission structure to "deny" elections. A candidate who "disputes the 2020 results" is lying. 3/

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