[Joe 6-pack]

"Recent trends in the spread and reach of misleading or unfounded claims online have the unsettling potential to come to a head after Election Day – particularly if the certified outcome is unknown or contested in the ensuing days and weeks."

Conversely, recent trends in the spread and reach of truthful information seriously jeopardizes democrat chances in the coming election.

[a fool in paradise]

>>”Recent trends in the spread and reach of misleading or unfounded claims online have the unsettling potential to come to a head after Election Day – particularly if the certified outcome is unknown or contested in the ensuing days and weeks.”

In late 2004, Dan Rather/CBS and AP ran with forged national guard memos faxed by a Democrat operative who coordinated with the DNC to access the media. They pushed a nutjob conspiracy theory that GWBush had been AWOL during the Vietnam War.

“but that was different”.

In 2000, the election eve newsleak of Bush’s decades old DWI cost him the “popular vote” (he only lost it by 0.51% and the impact was measurable).