Category: US Elections
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Pennsylvania Judge Allows Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Giveaway
A Pennsylvania state judge on Monday allowed Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaway to swing state voters to proceed. This came in after a surprising day of testimony in which the billionaire’s aide acknowledged his political group selected the contest’s winners. Lawyers for Musk’s pro-Trump America Political Action Committee (PAC) sought to persuade Judge Angelo Foglietta…
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Trump, Harris Pitch For President One Last Time, Before Historic U.S. Vote
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both predicted victory as they campaigned across Pennsylvania on Monday in the final, frantic day of an exceptionally close U.S. presidential election. The campaign has seen head-spinning twists: two assassination attempts and a felony conviction for Republican former President Trump, and Democratic Vice President Harris’ surprise elevation to the top…
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X.Com Spreading ‘False, Misleading Information’ About U.S. Elections
False or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the U.S. election have amassed 2 billion views on social media platform X this year, according to a report by non-profit group Center for Countering Digital Hate. The platform is also playing a central role in enabling the spread of false information about the critical battleground…
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Georgia Top Court Won’t Extend Ballot Deadline In Win For Trump
The top court in the battleground state of Georgia has disallowed Cobb County from extending the deadline for counting about 3,000 absentee ballots sent out before Election Day, handing a victory to the Republican National Committee and presidential candidate Donald Trump. Refusal To Extend Deadline Siding with the RNC, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned a…
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‘Americans Have A Long History Of Voting Against Their Own Interests’
‘In America, upwards of 40% of the country believes that the government is bad,’
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U.S. Blames Russia Over Video Falsely Alleging Fraudulent Voting
U.S. intelligence agencies have blamed Russia for making a video that falsely purports to show a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times in the U.S. state of Georgia. Georgia’s Significance Notably, Georgia is one of seven battleground states that will determine the winner in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election. A Close Contest The entire…
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Community Notes On X.Com “Failing To Counter False” Claims On US Polls
launched last year, the “Community Notes” feature on X allows users to flag false or misleading content, in effect crowd-sourcing fact checking to users rather than a dedicated team of fact checkers.