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By Any Means Necessary

February 9, 2021 By Debbie Young

President-elect Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and Mr. Doug Emhoff arrive at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, prior to the 59th Presidential inauguration. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

In a new Time Magazine report, Molly Ball, Time’s political correspondent, “celebrates a well-funded effort to change voting processes and the flow of political information before the 2020 elections,” reports James Freeman in the WSJ.

Molly Ball happily describes a “conspiracy” among the progressive left, big labor, big business and the Washington establishment to counter Donald Trump and suppress unwanted elements of U.S. political conversation before and after Election Day.

Like the various actors she describes at the heart of this vast campaign, Ms. Ball presents it as a virtuous effort to protect democracy from Mr. Trump and Covid-19. The participants in the conspiracy alleged by Ms. Ball certainly seem to have influenced the outcome.

From Time’s Molly Ball:

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.

… the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.

Many voters are bound to disagree, argues Mr. Freeman. Even among those who don’t disagree, many will want a “dispassionate review of the various changes to U.S. voting in 2020 and a consideration of their impact.”

Explaining how the game was played, Ms. Ball writes how Team Anti-Trump “deployed vast sums of money from federal taxpayers as well as private sources including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limited liability company created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.”  According to Ms. Ball, this resulted in a massive shift to mail-in voting, “practically a revolution in how people vote.”

Mr. Freeman reports how, along with “changing the typical process of voting, the campaign also involved an effort to persuade the public not to expect a decision on Election Night.”

Yet a hallmark of respected elections is reliably prompt reporting of definitive results. If nothing else comes of this election, let’s hope that states learn to front-load their campaign calendars. Whatever time people need to vote—and states need to count—that time must be given before Election Day, not afterward. Material numbers of ballots outstanding and uncounted after Election Day is a menace to the objectives of certainty, public confidence, and reliability that everyone should want to achieve.

Continues Ms. Ball in Time:

Laura Quinn, a veteran progressive operative who co-founded Catalist, began studying this problem a few years ago. She piloted a nameless, secret project, which she has never before publicly discussed, that tracked disinformation online and tried to figure out how to combat it. One component was tracking dangerous lies that might otherwise spread unnoticed. Researchers then provided information to campaigners or the media to track down the sources and expose them.

The most important takeaway from Quinn’s research, however, was that engaging with toxic content only made it worse. “When you get attacked, the instinct is to push back, call it out, say, ‘This isn’t true,’” Quinn says. “But the more engagement something gets, the more the platforms boost it. The algorithm reads that as, ‘Oh, this is popular; people want more of it.’”

The solution, she concluded, was to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread disinformation and by more aggressively policing it in the first place…. Quinn’s research gave ammunition to advocates pushing social media platforms to take a harder line.

Twitter, along with other media outlets, suppressed accurate New York Post reporting on Biden family influence peddling, writes Mr. Freeman.

Even people tempted to endorse censorship as a tool to ensure reasonable political debate must acknowledge that it failed miserably in helping to inform the public in 2020. The Time article suggests that this lesson, too, is being suppressed.

(James Freeman, WSJ, “Best of the Web”)

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