Summary of Richard L. Hasen's Cheap Speech

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The biggest distributor of election disinformation in the 2020 U. S. presidential election was not a group of Russian hackers, but President Donald Trump. He spread the Big Lie that he had won an election he had actually lost decisively to Joe Biden, and this led to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the U. Capitol and violent insurrection by Trump supporters.
#2 Trump’s claims about voting and election fraud were rampant in the first half of 2020, and he made sure to share them on social media. However, these claims were proven false, and led to a blue shift in the reporting of results.
#3 Trump continued to make false claims of voter fraud even after it was clear that Biden had won. He called the election rigged or stolen, and tried to get Republican state legislatures to select Trump electors.
#4 Trump had a receptive audience. Right-wing personalities such as members of the president’s family were among the superspreaders, who shared a false narrative about election fraud costing Trump the presidency.

Sujets

• Histoire
• 21st Century
• United States
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544451
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The biggest distributor of election disinformation in the 2020 U. S. presidential election was not a group of Russian hackers, but President Donald Trump. He spread the Big Lie that he had won an election he had actually lost decisively to Joe Biden, and this led to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the U. Capitol and violent insurrection by Trump supporters.

#2

Trump’s claims about voting and election fraud were rampant in the first half of 2020, and he made sure to share them on social media. However, these claims were proven false, and led to a blue shift in the reporting of results.

#3

Trump continued to make false claims of voter fraud even after it was clear that Biden had won. He called the election rigged or stolen, and tried to get Republican state legislatures to select Trump electors.

#4

Trump had a receptive audience. Right-wing personalities such as members of the president’s family were among the superspreaders, who shared a false narrative about election fraud costing Trump the presidency.

#5

Social media companies had to deal with Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the integrity of the election system. Twitter slapped a label on a pair of Trump’s vote-by-mail tweets, in which he accused California of allowing fraud through mail-in balloting. But instead of directly saying the tweets were false, Twitter directed users to get the facts about mail-in ballots.

#6

Trump supporters began shopping around for media that agreed with them, and some turned against Fox News, which had boosted Trump and Republicans. Fox had quickly recognized Biden as president-elect once its decision desk had called the race for him in mid-November 2020.

#7

Trump continued to push the rally online, tweeting on January 5: We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!. . I hope the Democrats, and even more importantly, the weak and ineffective RINO section of the Republican Party, are looking at the thousands of people pouring into D. C. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.

#8

The Election Integrity Partnership Report stated that a Facebook STOP THE STEAL Group grew to 320,000 users in less than one day before Facebook shut it down and forced users to join smaller, similar groups.

#9

Trump called on his followers to remain peaceful, but three hours later released a video in which he incited more violence, telling his supporters that the election was rigged against him. Pence declared Biden the winner. Georgia authorities began investigating Trump for potential criminal election law violations.

#10

Following the Capitol riot, Trump’s posts that contained false information about the election and the Capitol violence were quickly taken down by the social media platforms.

#11

The algorithms that determined which candidates and posts were highlighted, linked, or demoted were a black box. Even inadvertent choices could influence voter decisions.

#12

How to deal with Trump’s voting tweets was a much harder question than how to police false posts related to COVID-19. The platforms removed content from both Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. that promoted false virus information.