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A man who threatened Colorado’s secretary of state on Instagram faces two years in prison.
A Nebraska man pleaded guilty on Thursday to threatening Colorado’s secretary of state on Instagram last year, the first conviction resulting from the work of a Justice Department task force focused on combating the intimidation of election officials. Federal prosecutors said Travis Ford, 42, of Lincoln, Neb., would face up to two years in prison […]
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How Some States Are Combating Election Misinformation Ahead of Midterms
Ahead of the 2020 elections, Connecticut confronted a bevy of falsehoods about voting that swirled around online. One, widely viewed on Facebook, wrongly said that absentee ballots had been sent to dead people. On Twitter, users spread a false post that a tractor-trailer carrying ballots had crashed on Interstate 95, sending thousands of voter slips […]
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