Facebook, Twitter Are Failing to Curb Voting-By-Mail Falsehoods
- Trump-inspired disinformation on vote-by-mail flourishes
- Researchers sounding alarm about the volume of false claims
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In August, a video posted on social media by a Florida woman named Tina Brown outlined what she claimed were potential hazards with mail-in election ballots. Brown said envelopes for registered Democratic voters included a D in the barcode, while envelopes for Republicans contained an R. She then asserted that a left-leaning mail carrier could use the identifiers to suppress Republican votes while saying, “Let’s just chuck it.”
But Brown’s video omitted the fact that the ballots were for separate party primaries, leaving the impression that they were for the general election in November.