Misinformation's Limited Impact On The Midterms

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Election observers were concerned misinformation would have an outsized impact on the 2022 elections, as it did in 2020. But, that ended up not being the case. Why?

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and disinformation correspondent Shannon Bond.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Fact-checking by Katherine Swartz.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.6	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:07.6	I cover the White House.
0:08.6	I'm Miles Parks.
0:09.6	I cover voting.
0:10.6	And we have Shannon Bond with us today.
0:12.2	Shannon is part of the disinformation team at NPR.
0:15.4	Hey, Shannon.
0:16.4	Hey guys, we have you both back on the pod today for something of a post-mortem on the election.
0:23.0	There were a lot of fears heading in that it could be a repeat of 2020 with election
0:28.2	lies and misinformation literally putting election workers and even voters in danger.
0:33.2	Let's start by going back in time.
0:42.0	Back to 2020 as votes were being counted, we heard those people saying stop the count,
0:49.2	stop the count.
0:50.2	Yes, and that audio was from this absentee ballot counting center in Detroit in 2020,
0:57.6	where people started gathering due to claims going viral on social media that were telling
1:03.1	them to go out and protest.
1:04.5	So you see dozens of people gathering banging on the window saying stop the count and then
1:09.7	you see the election workers getting really scared, putting a poster board to try and protect
1:14.6	themselves and protect their identities.
1:17.5	None of that happened in 2022.
1:19.4	You know, I think that to me was one of the starkest differences.
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