{"id":216473,"date":"2020-11-13T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216473"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:24:55","slug":"the-guardian-urges-readers-to-ignore-allegations-of-vote-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216473","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Urges Readers to Ignore Allegations of Vote Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Nov 13, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
The media is desperate to shore up the illusion of a clear Biden \u201cwin\u201d. Paying attention to allegations that Biden\u2019s win was fraudulent will only fuel them, the Guardian maintains. So instead of investigating the claims to determine if they are true or false, the Guardian talks to disinformation experts instead.<\/h5>\n
I don\u2019t know what qualifies someone to be a \u201cdisinformation expert\u201d but none of those the Guardian talks with bothers to even analyse claims that Biden\u2019s win was questionable.<\/h5>\n
Instead, the Guardian concludes that the allegations are \u201clies\u201d and the best way to deal with them is to avoid paying them attention. Seriously, the Guardian is urging readers to ignore allegations of voting malpractice without examining them.<\/h5>\n
Regardless of whether you are a Trump supporter or not, this really is an example of disinformation deliberately intended to psychologically induce readers to ignore potential crimes. Ed.<\/h5>\n

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‘Don’t fuel the fire’: disinformation experts on how Biden should deal with Trump’s election lies<\/h2>\n

Lois Beckett \u2013 The Guardian Nov 13, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the days since Joe Biden won the US presidential election, Donald Trump has rejected the results, spread lies about voter fraud, replaced key military leaders with loyalists<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and encouraged Republicans<\/a> at every level of the party to contest the vote counts showing that he lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans are now debating how Biden should respond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden has called Trump\u2019s refusal to concede an \u201cembarrassment<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d and told voters that \u201cthe fact that they\u2019re not willing to acknowledge that we won at this point is not of much consequence\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

But some have called on the president-elect to go further, and furiously sound the alarm<\/a><\/strong><\/span> about an American politician adopting the tactics of a dictator<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some experts on disinformation say that Biden\u2019s current strategy of downplaying Trump\u2019s behavior may be the correct one at the moment, even if it can be \u201cfrustrating to watch\u201d, said Becca Lewis, a research affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute, who studies misinformation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy not giving Trump the attention that he craves, it deflates a lot of the strength and power that Trump and his supporters have in this moment,\u201d Lewis said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Biden campaign used a similar approach during the campaign in response to Republicans\u2019 attempts to turn a story about emails from Biden\u2019s son Hunter into a major scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than attempting to respond point-by-point, the Biden campaign bluntly dismissed the story as \u201ca conspiracy theory\u201d, said Whitney Phillips, a professor of communications at Syracuse University. \u201cIt was done in a tone of, \u2018We\u2019re responding to this because we have to. We\u2019re not giving it very much mental energy,\u2019 whether or not that\u2019s how they felt behind the scenes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat particular strategy really did seem to work,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having Biden acknowledge Trump\u2019s norm-shattering behavior since the election, rather than try to ignore it, was important, Phillips said, but his quick pivot to talking about the issues facing Americans next, and the challenges the government needed to start dealing with, was \u201ceffective rhetorically, but also emotionally\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden was responding \u201clike an adult,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Biden team, \u201cdirectly responding to any of these allegations at this stage is just adding more oxygen to the fire\u201d, said Joan Donovan, the research director at Harvard\u2019s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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