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The Dispatch

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🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Does a video show someone burning ballots with votes for Trump? No. Did Michigan ‘magically’ find 138,339 votes for Joe Biden? Nope. What about Wisconsin? Did voter turnout exceed the number of registered voters in the state? A thousand times no. But tight vote counts in battleground states have laid the perfect groundwork for election disinformation to explode online over the past few days. As Steve points out, some bad actors on social media and cable news simply “don’t care whether what they’re saying is actually true.” But not to worry, Dispatch fact checkers Alec Dent and Khaya Himmelman—along with staff writer Andrew Egger—join the podcast today to debunk conspiracy theories surrounding election fraud so you don’t have to. Show Notes: -Join The Dispatch for a post-election gathering featuring congressional leadership and top policy experts November 9-10: Sign up here! -Click here for all of our latest fact checks. -“Biden Had No Election Coattails,” by Karl Rove. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to our special Friday Dispatch podcast.
0:03.4	I'm your host, Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes.
0:06.2	And today we have a very special Friday Dispatch podcast
0:10.0	indeed because it's Back Check election edition.
0:15.0	So we've got joining us Andrew Egger,
0:17.7	Alec Dent and Kaya Himmelman,
0:20.2	all from our Dispatch fact checking team to tell us
0:23.2	what's what, what's not,
0:25.5	and why all these people are saying crazy stuff online.
0:30.2	Before we get to that,
0:31.2	make sure to check out our post election conference
0:34.0	Monday and Tuesday.
0:35.6	You can see it at what's next event.com.
0:38.9	The tickets are $100 and include a new complimentary
0:41.8	subscription to the Dispatch.
0:43.6	We're announcing new people every day
0:45.6	but we've got Congresswoman Liz Cheney,
0:47.2	Senator Ben Sass, Senator Tim Scott,
0:49.6	panels on the future of conservatism,
0:52.8	even gelical turnout,
0:55.0	everything that your heart could desire
0:57.4	in a post election Dispatch conference.
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