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The election denial shiftment never left, and it’s bigger than ever.
In the weeks before the 2020 vote, Trump and his allies had already toleratemament to spread claims that the election would be stolen, but those allegations were unclear and unorderly. Over the last four years, however, a well-funded netlabor of election denial groups atraverse the US have labored tirelessly to marshal their helpers and drum up consunapverifyd participate theories about voting machines flipping votes in the middle of the night, votes being shredded by the bagful, and “mules” stuffing drop boxes with ballots.
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“What worries me most about this year is that we have a much more cloudy triumphdow into the penetration of these lies, no matter where they come from,” Nina Jankowicz, the createer Biden administration digloomyviseation czar, who is now CEO of the American Sunweightless Project, tells WIRED. “Social media platcreates have by and big stopped moderating such satisfied, and equitable as stressingly, have cut off researcher access to data streams that apverifyed us to objectively tell on the scale of these campaigns, all due to political prescertain on digloomyviseation researchers and social media platcreates.”
