As a matter of record, I want to express my disagreement with framing "stop the steal" narratives as ipso facto disinformation. This is gaslighting and wrong. https://twitter.com/2020Partnership/status/1324074460635308032

1 These narratives are authentic POVs in our discourse

2 Narratives are "opinions" - different from sharing false facts

3 There are facts that support the view

4 The standard is not being applied evenly - where do they highlight narratives about Trump not stepping down?

Falsely labeling matters of opinion "disinformation" is an abuse of the term. This can become its own form of disinformation as we saw with the gaslighting & abuse around "Russian disinfo" in recent years.

At some point this overreach in policing disinformation damages democracy more than it protects it. This is all the more the case when the topic has been weaponized in a partisan fashion, as it undeniably has in recent years.

An effort like @2020Partnership would better serve the public by:

a) highlighting genuine election-specific disinfo, as it does

b) bringing transparency & accountability around how social media cos are tilting the board during an election

c) do the same re mainstream media

Here's a Stanford Report article on some of the good work it does in the first category https://news.stanford.edu/2020/11/02/sleuthing-misinformation-voting/