We Asked for Examples of Election Misinformation. You Delivered.

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Two months ago, The New York Times asked readers to send in examples of election-related misinformation they saw online.

Readers responded. In all, more than 4,000 examples of misinformation were submitted to The Times from social media feeds, text-messaging apps and email accounts.

Each legitimate submission was vetted by reporters and editors at The Times, and many have influenced our journalism in the lead-up to the midterm elections. We are grateful for readers’ submissions, and dedicated to continuing the work of fighting digital misinformation.

Here is a review of some of the major types of misinformation submitted by readers, as well as some discovered in our own reporting.

This is the lead in to a long article on hoaxes perpetrated by, among others, white supremacists and Trumps good friends, the Russians.

". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast

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If Republicans manage to keep the House after tomorrow’s election, we should consider ourselves to be a dictatorship with sham elections with a predetermined outcome.

In 2020, if we do have elections provided the three branches of our government who serve Donald Trump instead of checks and balances we have on paper do not abolish them, we should have UN monitor them IMO.

" All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. " — George Orwell.

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Hear, hear!

". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast

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