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Prosecuting Vote Suppression By Misinformation, Chelsea Mihelich
Prosecuting Vote Suppression By Misinformation, Chelsea Mihelich
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about the influence of “fake news” proliferated in the media. Questions abounded regarding the affect social media platforms may have had on the electorate. Election Day 2016 had many in the media pondering: “Did Social Media Ruin Election 2016?” and “Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?” Two years after the election, social science scholars were still studying the effect of voters’ consumption of fake news stories leading up to November 8. The current fascination in the U.S. regarding fake news and, relatedly, the role of social media as …