Exploring voter suppression and voter fraud in the Trump campaign
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Today’s news concerns two themes: voter suppression and supposed voter fraud. First, an analysis of how 3.5 million Black Americans were recently profiled by the Trump campaign, in an article from the UK’s Channel 4 news. The group was targeted for ads to try to convince them to stay home and not vote on election day this November. A second article described how the campaign was targeting white voters with fearful social media messages to encourage them to vote for Trump. These articles are complemented by other research by the Washington Post about a Twitter account @WentDemtoRep that was removed by the platform in late August. The account featured a number of testimonials by Blacks challenging accusations of racism by Trump.
Voter suppression was part of the playbook of the Trump 2016 campaign. This article in TechCrunch describes what Cambridge Analytica did to manipulate private Facebook members’ data w ..
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