Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
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Tuesday morning in South Africa began with the quiet, familiar rhythm of democracy. In community halls, churches and schools across the country, elderly citizens and people with disabilities made their way to special voting stations, some assisted by family members, others helped by election officials. The Electoral Commission of South…
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On the surface, Election Day feels like a string of quiet rituals: the folding curtain, the paper ballot, the small sticker that says “I Voted,” the careful walk back to the car. But step into a classroom or a student union on that same day and the scene is different. A recent report from Fox Bangor tells a story about students who spent Election Day not just watching the results come in but studying the disinformation that swirled around them. They were not passive consumers of news. They were investigators, comparing posts, checking screenshots, and tracing rumors back to their…
Election Day in the United States is supposed to be a quiet, orderly ritual—a day when citizens cast their votes and wait for the results to tell the story of their democracy. But on this midterm Election Day, the story was almost immediately drowned out by a different kind of chaos. Social media began to hum with a disturbing claim: that 20,000 counterfeit ballots had been found in Houston, all marked for Democratic candidates, and that the FBI had discovered them during a late-night raid on a warehouse the evening before the election. The rumor moved with the speed of…
