Arnon Grunberg

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Voters

On strategies – Lois Beckett in The Guardian:

‘Some experts on disinformation say that Biden’s current strategy of downplaying Trump’s behavior may be the correct one at the moment, even if it can be “frustrating to watch”, said Becca Lewis, a research affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute, who studies misinformation.

“By not giving Trump the attention that he craves, it deflates a lot of the strength and power that Trump and his supporters have in this moment,” Lewis said.’

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‘“I think it would be great if Biden and his campaign took a very kindergarten approach to the situation that we’re in,” Crockett said. “If you’re working with little kids and you’re trying to get them to understand some basic concept, you have to keep repeating it, bringing it back to square one.” It’s also important to acknowledge how Republicans’ sweeping claims about voter fraud are specifically targeted at delegitimizing Black voters and throwing out their votes, said Shireen Mitchell, a disinformation researcher and founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women.
Republicans have focused their baseless claims of voting fraud on majority-Black cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, where support from Black voters helped Biden win the presidency.
“They’re using coded language to say anyone other than white people are illegal voters,” Mitchell said. Trump’s attacks on voting by mail, which many Americans chose to do during a pandemic that has disproportionately killed Black and brown people, is part of a long history of constantly evolving strategies to disenfranchise black Americans, she said.’

Read the article here.

Ignoring is one of the best medicines in the fight against conspiracy theories and disruptive behavior, as anyone who ever stood in front of a group of children should have known.

Unfortunately, we also want spectacle and no spectacle without transgression and disruptive behavior.

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