Fighting False Election Claims Could Get A Lot Harder In 2024

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

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Researchers, election officials and former tech executives are concerned the federal government, fearful of kicking up a storm, has pulled back from its rumor fighting efforts that were effective in 2020 and 2022. NPR correspondents Miles Parks and Shannon Bond joined our co-host Ailsa Chang to discuss their reporting on misinformation. Email us at considerthis@npr.org

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0:00.0	No sitting president has ever gotten a number of votes that I got.
0:11.0	That is former president Trump repeating the big lie during an interview with my
0:16.2	colleague Stephen Steep back in January 2022. The interview took place a little over a year
0:22.0	after riders who were motivated by that
0:24.5	lie stormed the US capital in order to stop lawmakers from certifying the
0:28.8	election results.
0:29.8	A lot of you...
0:30.8	President, you... nobody believes you think Biden got 80 million votes.
0:35.2	How come when he went to speak in different locations?
0:38.2	Nobody came to watch, but all of a sudden he got 80 million votes.
0:42.0	If you're forgiven, maybe because the election was about you.
0:45.0	When Trump was challenged with the actual facts of the 2020 election,
0:49.0	he cut off the interview.
0:51.0	Mr. President, if I'm...
0:52.0	One more question.
0:54.0	I want to ask about a court hearing yesterday on January 6th, Judge Emet Meta, he's gone, okay?
0:59.2	Despite lots of clear nonpartisan evidence that Joe Biden did indeed win the 2020 election
1:06.0	and that voter fraud is extremely rare, misinformation and outright lies about
1:11.4	our country's election process continue to spread.
1:15.4	And right now it's happening during a moment where election misinformation watchdogs,
1:19.8	fact-checkers, and researchers find themselves under attack, not just by anonymous online trolls, but by lawsuits that claim efforts to eliminate misinformation can infringe on First Amendment rights.
1:34.2	And the ability to fight the spread of misinformation
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