going to the Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian, anyone want anything?

Influential accounts will continue to prime audiences ahead of time to interpret any novel events as “evidence” of fraud instead of genuine errors or challenges that inevitably result from large complex systems.

Election deniers win in court:

PHOENIX (AP) — US judge in Arizona declines to bar group from monitoring ballot drop boxes, saying it would violate constitution.

BREAKING: Suspect who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer 'posted links on his Facebook page to multiple videos produced by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell falsely alleging that the 2020 election was stolen'

cnn.com/politics/live-…

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Due to a law the GOP legislature refused to change, Pennsylvania cannot start counting mail-in ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day. When the state's top elections official said that this could mean results wouldn't be complete for 'days,' the right pounced.

as a complete nerd about content moderation (was a mod by age 11) i am ready to talk everyone's ears off

Exclusive from me: '2000 Mules' creators are linked to AZ drop box monitors accused of voter intimidation.
Votebeat got access to internal communications showing the connection and showing thousands of volunteers have signed up nationwide
arizona.votebeat.org/2022/10/27/234…

Bc of voting machine conspiracy theories, Nye Co. NV, pop 50000, adopted 100% hand counting. It's off to a very slow and inaccurate start -- including forcing an ACLU observer out at gunpoint

A high-quality and thorough investigation by @ap shows that Russian violence against Ukrainian civilians is strategic and approved by high-ranking people in Russian army.

apnews.com/article/russia…

2000 Mules shows a video of Andrews dropping off a small number of ballots at a drop box, with D'Souza's voiceover saying 'What you are seeing is a crime. These are fraudulent votes.' But Andrews was dropping off his family's ballots, which is obviously totally legal in GA.

BREAK: Arizona's Cochise County voted on Monday to hand-count ballots for the upcoming midterm elections after a pressure campaign from anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America.

We have the receipts.

mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…

Rep. Paul Gosar sends a letter to Putin and Zelensky inviting them to come to Arizona “to engage in peace talks.”

“The location, Phoenix, Arizona is far enough away from the conflict…to be a productive location.”

An Oath Keeper-affiliated group staking out ballot drop boxes in Arizona got sued, and now says it's retreating

'adhering to the laws of the land' is not a great basis for content moderation.

As Twitter is getting new leaders, reminder that moderation is vital:
1) A few trolls ruin everything: Just 0.1% of all Reddits make 38% of attacks on others
2) Short well-explained bans for 1st offenses, followed by perma-bans, work well
3) Toxic communities turn new users toxic

Cole explains that members of the Alliance are impacted by Clean Elections USA's drop box monitoring: “[It’s] intimidating…[they're] taking pictures of you, or your car…people are kind of stepping back and going, 'well maybe it might not be safe for me to go out and vote.'”