En mindre grupp användare i sociala medier ligger bakom stora delar av all den desinformation som spridits med pågående om ett omfattande valfusk i det amerikanska valet. En av ”superspridarna” är Eric Trump, Trumps son, skriver News York Times.
På morgonen den 5 november drog Eric Trump igång, vad som utvecklats till en egen kampanj, på twitter med påståenden om valfusk, manipulerade rösträkningsdatorer och med krav om att röster ska räknas om. Påståenden som saknar grund:
https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1324477977044963328?s=20
Inledningen
New research from Avaaz, a global human rights group, the Elections Integrity Partnership and The New York Times shows how a small group of people — mostly right-wing personalities with outsized influence on social media — helped spread the false voter-fraud narrative that led to those rallies.
That group, like the guests of a large wedding held during the pandemic, were “superspreaders” of misinformation around voter fraud, seeding falsehoods that include the claims that dead people voted, voting machines had technical glitches, and mail-in ballots were not correctly counted.
“Because of how Facebook’s algorithm functions, these superspreaders are capable of priming a discourse,” said Fadi Quran, a director at Avaaz. “There is often this assumption that misinformation or rumors just catch on. These superspreaders show that there is an intentional effort to redefine the public narrative.”
New York Times har kartlagt vilka som spridit uppgifterna, var spridningen startade och vilka som varit mest aktiva.
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