{"id":41727,"date":"2020-11-03T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41727"},"modified":"2020-11-03T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:42:06","slug":"beware-trolls-and-online-disrupters-when-the-polls-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/beware-trolls-and-online-disrupters-when-the-polls-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware trolls and online disrupters when the polls close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really long enough for a post &#8211; but too important to ignore, or delay, and it just came in.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Election Integrity Project held a seminar just this morning, and Eric Smalley, technology editor for The Conversation, attended and felt this information was the most important to share:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russian efforts, by way of the shadowy Internet Research Agency, are focused on amplifying claims by Americans of fraud by Democrats, but unlike 2016 the Russian participation is getting dramatically less traction.<\/li>\n<li>A major concern is entities purporting to be livestreaming video but who are in fact using old and\/or unrelated video to create a false narrative. This was first seen during the George Floyd protests.<\/li>\n<li>The danger zone is the time between the polls closing and results coming in. People will be anxiously watching for news and information, and entities pushing disinformation\/misinformation will attempt to fill the news vacuum.<\/li>\n<li>Things the Election Integrity Project is watching:\n<p><em>There is likely to be lots of online video showing incidents of intimidation that will be rapidly decontextualized and used to delegitimize the election.<\/p>\n<p>Both Facebook and Twitter will be labeling problematic posts, but only Twitter disallows sharing of those posts. Will Facebook need to follow suit?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And when I say share, I mean share.\u00a0 This was in an email\u00a0 from The Conversation.\u00a0 Feel free to share the inforation with friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really long enough for a post &#8211; but too important to ignore, or delay, and it just came in. The Election Integrity Project held a seminar just this morning, and Eric Smalley, technology editor for The Conversation, attended and felt this information was the most important to share: Russian efforts, by way of the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/beware-trolls-and-online-disrupters-when-the-polls-close\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3765,3781,3721],"class_list":["post-41727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-theft","tag-elections","tag-gop-lies","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}