How to Identify 2024 Election Misinformation Online
Government Technology
In early 2017, when then-presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway referenced a deadly Bowling Green terrorist attack that never actually happened, residents were happy to make jokes and have some lighthearted fun.
The mistake, which Conway later described as a verbal slip-up, even spawned its own local “Bowling Green Massacre”-themed pizza, topped with garlic butter, mozzarella cheese, mac and cheese, blackened chicken, jalapeños and Sriracha sauce, as reported by the Bowling Green Daily News at the time.
Nearly a decade later, as the country readies for another presidential election, that sort of false and misleading information seems almost quaint by comparison. These days, the internet is rife with AI-generated images of fake celebrity endorsements and Facebook-spawned misinformation accusing immigrants in an Ohio town of eating their neighbors’ pets.
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