The Most Intense Online Disinformation Event in American History
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic are bringing you a conversation with Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory. Alex was last on the show in August to talk about the newly established Election Integrity Partnership, which he helped set up to focus on detecting and mitigating disinformation around the U.S. 2020 election. Well, the election is over! So Alex is back to talk about what the partnership saw, how well the information ecosystem held up and what the landscape looks like as the dust begins to settle.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | It created a space for people to start to make these narratives form. |
| 0:37.0 | Now, even we got the results on election night and they were official results, there'd still |
| 0:40.6 | be disinformation, right? |
| 0:42.4 | I think what would happen especially this time is the delay in count and the blue shift, |
| 0:48.1 | which was predicted by many, many political scientists, that you could have the Republican |
| 0:53.2 | candidate doing better on election day and then the Democrat doing better as the male |
| 0:59.2 | and ballots are counted. |
| 1:00.8 | That is something that we've seen in the last several cycles. |
| 1:03.6 | It was not at all surprising, but that blue shift was extended out in time, both by COVID |
| 1:10.6 | and the shift of people to voting by male and by various absentee mechanisms, but also |
| 1:15.8 | by the intentional decision, especially by the legislature in Pennsylvania, which is controlled |
| 1:21.1 | by the Republican Party to not allow the Secretary of State to start processing ballots as |
| 1:26.4 | they came in. |
| 1:27.4 | And so, yeah, I think that absolutely created the opportunity for this and has made the |
| 1:31.6 | situation much worse. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm Quintet Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, November 19, 2020. |
| 1:41.4 | Today in our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Dwack and I are bringing you a conversation |
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