elections
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GoFundMe Takes Down Campaign That Raised More Than $275,56 to Look for Imaginary Voter Fraud
Tech companies of all shapes and sizes are apparently taking note of what happens when you let rampant misinformation, or conspiracy theories, flourish on your platform and don’t do anything about it. This week, GoFundMe quickly pulled the plug on a popular campaign that had raised more than $US200,000 ($275,560) to investigate unsubstantiated claims of…
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Federal Judge Furious at Trump’s Postmaster General for Delaying Order to Search for 300,000 Ballots
The United States Postal Service failed to comply with a court-ordered deadline to search for an estimated 300,000 ballots that were not scanned as delivered by Election Day, as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the USPS by civil rights groups including the NAACP. The federal judge in the case angrily stated that “someone may…
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U.S. Feds Say 19-Year-Old With a Van Full of Rifles Plotted to Kill Joe Biden, Posted About It on iFunny
Among the reasons a federal judge ruled that 19-year-old Alexander Hillel Treisman should remain in custody while he awaits trial on child pornography charges: He conveyed his intent to assassinate U.S. Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden in a meme he posted online, according to prosecutors.
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Trump’s DOJ Clears the Path for Voter Fraud Fearmongering
The Department of Justice is reminding U.S. attorneys that they are free to break with nearly 40 years of precedent and publicly air unproven claims of voter fraud before the 2020 elections on Nov. 3.