A Voter’s Guide to Elections: Learning To Identify Misinformation and Disinformation – All Otsego

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A Voter's Guide to Elections from the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area

Learning To Identify Misinformation and Disinformation

A very successful pop star meets a good-looking football player. They date. It’s big news. By January 2024, the player’s team is on its way to Super Bowl LVIII, and the Internet is on fire with stories about the singer and the football player. The story making headlines is that the two of them are in cahoots to influence voters in the presidential election.

Sounds bizarre, right? And unbelievable! But it did happen, and you probably know who the two people at the center of this falsehood are. We aren’t revealing their names for good reasons. Read on to find out why.

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