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  1. 🔍 The viral 2024 election claims making the rounds again, checked against the record:

    "Hacked voting machines in the swing states": No court, audit, or official investigation has found any machine tampering. Every statewide audit and recount confirmed the certified result. Election security experts say machine vulnerabilities are real but there is no evidence they have ever been exploited in a US election.

    "100,000 Harris votes deleted": No deleted votes were ever found. The figure echoes a debunked 2021 claim about Georgia, where the "deleted" items were obsolete voter registrations removed in routine maintenance. The real story is simpler: Harris drew about 6.8 million fewer votes than Biden did in 2020.

    "Fake counties with millions of Trump votes": Those counties do not exist, and no votes were recorded for them. They were graphics glitches on an election night livestream, where county cards were transposed over statewide totals. The claim's loudest amplifier publicly retracted it in December 2025.

    Statistical anomaly claims, like early voting clustering in Nevada, remain allegations disputed by statisticians, and a related New York recount lawsuit was dismissed on standing grounds. Paper ballots, post election audits, and congressional certification remain the backstop.

    Read more:
    pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact
    factually.co/fact-checks/polit
    factcheck.org/2021/07/more-tru

    #ElectionFactCheck #Misinformation #2024Election

  2. DATE: August 29, 2026 at 11:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: Study finds media coverage of the 2024 presidential race favored political spectacle over substantive policy debates

    URL: psypost.org/study-finds-media-

    New research provides evidence that mainstream newspaper coverage of the 2024 United States presidential election focused heavily on political strategy and legal controversies rather than policy issues. The findings indicate that while coverage of Donald Trump was persistently negative, Kamala Harris received a temporary positive boost following her sudden nomination. The study was published in the Journal of Political Marketing.

    The contemporary political environment in the United States is highly polarized, which shapes both how journalists report the news and how the public interprets it. During election years, readers flock to political news to inform their voting decisions. However, journalists face a choice in how they present this information. A 2011 review of political communication explained that news outlets often frame elections around campaign tactics, momentum, and horse-race polling—focusing on who is winning or losing—rather than substantive policy debates. When this strategy-based framing dominates, the news tends to emphasize political spectacle over practical governance.

    Alongside this focus on campaign tactics, political news often carries a heavy dose of negativity. Journalists and readers alike tend to display greater sensitivity to conflict and scandal than to routine achievements. This negativity bias has become particularly pronounced in recent years. For instance, a study covered by PsyPost in 2023 found that negative language use among U.S. politicians surged starting in 2015 alongside Donald Trump’s initial primary campaign and remained elevated throughout his presidency.

    The 2024 presidential election presented an unusually chaotic cycle, featuring an assassination attempt, a late-stage withdrawal by Joe Biden, and the rapid nomination of a new candidate, Kamala Harris. The authors of the new study set out to document how these unprecedented political shocks altered the narratives and the emotional tone presented in mainstream print journalism.

    The research, led by Ayse D. Lokmanoglu of Boston University, analyzed tens of thousands of articles from five major high-circulation newspapers. The team focused on USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, collecting articles published between January 1, 2024, and January 31, 2025. After initially gathering over 500,000 articles, the researchers applied keyword filters to identify stories that specifically mentioned Joe Biden, Donald Trump, or Kamala Harris in the headline or opening excerpt. This process resulted in a final dataset of 37,321 full-text articles.

    To make sense of this massive amount of text, the scientists used automated computer programs to conduct topic modeling and sentiment analysis. Topic modeling is a technique that identifies clusters of words that frequently appear together, allowing researchers to see what overarching themes are present in a set of documents without having to read each one manually. Sentiment analysis involves using a specialized dictionary to count the number of positive and negative words in an article, providing an overall score for the emotional tone of the text.

    The researchers identified five major themes in the news coverage: elections and campaign frames, Trump family legal issues, domestic policy and regulation, foreign policy and ideology, and government and legislation. As the election cycle progressed, the share of articles dedicated to elections and campaign frames surged sharply. This spike was particularly prominent around major political events, such as Biden dropping out of the race and the Democratic National Convention.

    Meanwhile, coverage of Trump’s legal issues grew steadily, peaking in late December and early January during developments in his various court cases. In contrast, discussions of domestic policy and regulation steadily declined in volume as the election approached. This pattern indicates a displacement effect, where campaign drama and legal scandals squeezed out substantive discussions of policy.

    When looking at the emotional tone of the coverage, the researchers noted that the five newspapers converged on broadly similar patterns. Overall, the median sentiment of the coverage hovered slightly below neutral. However, distinct differences emerged depending on which candidate the article covered. Articles mentioning Trump were consistently negative throughout most of the pre-election period.

    Articles mentioning Harris, or both Biden and Harris, trended in a slightly positive direction. Harris received a noticeable positive bump in coverage following the Democratic National Convention and the vice-presidential debate. This temporary boost aligns with the concept of a post-nomination honeymoon effect, where newly introduced or barrier-breaking candidates receive more favorable, optimistic coverage in their early days on the national ticket.

    Interestingly, articles that mentioned both Democratic and Republican candidates were persistently negative, suggesting that when journalists write about both sides in the same article, they usually focus on partisan conflict and adversarial attacks.

    The findings offer a detailed look at mainstream media narratives, but the researchers noted a few limitations to their work. The analysis focused exclusively on five major newspapers that generally lean toward the political center or center-left. Because the study excluded right-leaning outlets, the results might not capture the full spectrum of the American media diet.

    Additionally, the automated tool used to measure sentiment relies on counting specific words, which means it can miss complex rhetorical devices like sarcasm, subtext, or strategic ambiguity. The researchers also filtered their articles by searching for specific candidate names. Articles that discussed broad political platforms or policies without naming Biden, Harris, or Trump directly were excluded, which could have artificially lowered the amount of policy coverage detected in the dataset. Future research could expand on this work by using advanced language models capable of understanding context and nuance, or by linking news publication data with social media metrics to see how readers amplify different types of political stories.

    The study, “An Overview of Media Coverage Shifts Before and After the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election,” was authored by Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Ananya Gupta, Tess Hemmila, Amira Jadoon, Bart Knijnenburg, and Arie Perliger.

    URL: psypost.org/study-finds-media-

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #MediaCoverage #2024Election #PoliticalSpectacle #PolicyDebate #CampaignFraming #TrumpNews #HarrisCoverage #NegativeSentiment #NewsAnalysis #MassMediaShifts

  3. @Shibanarchiste @zer0billionaires The #UnitedStates #Constitution says a person must be 35 years old to serve as #POTUS.

    #AOC turned 35 *after* #JoeBiden dropped out of the #2024election and #KamalaHarris was already on the ticket (as Vice President). I expect AOC *will* run for #President in the near future. #USpol

  4. Makdisi Street welcomes #TaNehisiCoates to talk about the #KamalaHarris campaign's failure to oppose the #GazaGenocide in the #2024election, and the #DNC's exclusion of and contempt for Palestinian voices.

    (should be required listening for Masto shitlibs who spent the campaign telling anti-genocide protesters to shut up & who troll them with phony I told you so's to this day)

    youtube.com/watch?v=rZrXgODaPV4
    #USpol #USpolitics #BlueMAGA #Palestine #Gaza #UncommittedMovement #PalestineSolidarity

  5. > What emerges is a picture far larger than a single election, a single billionaire, or a single political party.

    We have an election-equipment ecosystem that has existed within a far-right political network since the 1970s—one that election-security experts, computer scientists, statisticians, and cybersecurity professionals have been warning Congress and the American people about for decades. ...

    What we’ve uncovered is a decades-long transnational organized crime syndicate and a safety net established to protect the wealthy pedophiles in the Epstein files.

    #thiswillhold #substack #trump
    #uspol #uspolitics #Epsteinfiles
    #epsteinclass #republicans
    #democrats #votingmachines
    #petertheil #rupertmurdoch
    #elonmusk #leonardleo #barreseid
    #larryellison #davidellison #reidhoffman #leonblack #jesstaley
    #ashleystclaire #kamalaharris
    #markritchie #vincentreed
    #danrather #whistleblowers
    #2024election #putin #netanyahu

    open.substack.com/pub/thiswill

  6. RE: mastodon.social/@HakeemG/11667

    Still amazing to see the significance KHive trolls on SM invest in Harris's worthless, meretricious pronouncements on #Gaza during the #2024election.

    This #AdamJohnson piece is a great aide-mémoire for appreciating the hollowness and cynicism of Kamala's posturing on #Palestine while serving as the loyal and undissenting (*to the end*) no. 2 in the Genocide Joe Administration:

    thenation.com/article/politics
    #USpol #BlueMAGA #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #LoveMeImALiberal #WithLiberalsLikeThis...

  7. @thetnholler.bsky.social Considering that the leading #2020election denier easily won the state of #Kentucky in the #2024election - despite initiating the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt to stop certification of #JoeBiden as 46th #POTUS - it is freaking hilarious that the state passed ‘sore loser laws’ preventing people who lose primaries from running as Independents! 😂

    So #ThomasMassie can’t run as an Independent against #EdGallrein. But he could wage a nasty write-in campaign!

  8. Since #Trump easily won #Kentucky in the #2024election you wouldn’t *think* that the state has ‘sore loser laws’, but it does.

    So #ThomasMassie is barred from running as an #Independent after losing the #KY4 #Republican primary to a #Trump stooge. cnn.com/2026/05/19/politics/th

    But he *can* endorse and campaign with any Independent of #Libertarian candidate that he feels like. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    #Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol with #ElbowsUp 💪!

  9. Former MAGA Influencer Claims Elon Musk Had Early Knowledge of 2024 Election Results

    📰 Original title: Ex-MAGA influencer shares election conspiracy theory involving Elon Musk

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/former-maga-in

    #politics #elonmusk #2024election #conspiracy

  10. "As Kamala Harris weighs another run in 2028, the #DemocraticParty faces a split over #Israel policy. A new report suggests it may have cost votes in 2024. With a base that has shifted dramatically, can the party keep up with what its voters now expect?"

    guest: Omar Baddar, Political Analyst

    omny.fm/shows/the-take/inside-

    (v. also comments of Josh Ruebner, IMEU Policy Project director: threadreaderapp.com/thread/202)
    #Palestine #Gaza #USpolitics #USMiddleEastPolicy #USforeignPolicy #DNC #2024election

  11. @KimPerales Serious or not, the #Trump #kakistocracy DOES *represent* the #UnitedStates in the eyes of the world. They WON the #2024election.

    #DonaldTrump famously said after his first primary win in #Nevada prior to the #2016election “I love the poorly educated!”

    I can’t say this politely, but if the #USA doesn’t reform its SHITTY 💩 #PublicEducation system (look at the goddam #PISA rankings, or any other measure), then it WILL become a #Russia of the West.

    #Resist intelligently!

  12. Why aren't Democrats up by 20 points if President Trump is unpopular? G. Elliott Morris explores the intriguing polling gap, revealing that many who disapprove of President Trump are still not ready to vote for Democrats. A significant portion of these "softer disapprovers" remain undecided or lean Republican. Dig deeper into G. Elliott Morris's analysis: gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-is- #2024Election #Polling #Politics

  13. In case anyone needs a reminder on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' position on the Trump presidency: abortion remains its "preeminent priority."

    They are welcome to repent of helping install this evil at any time.

    ncronline.org/news/what-cathol
    #USpol #Catholics #Trump #2024election

  14. "There is perhaps no issue with a greater gap between Democratic voters and the leadership of the #DemocraticParty than continued American military and political support for the #genocideInGaza. The evidence that supporting #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza was an electoral liability for Biden and subsequently Vice President Kamala Harris is overwhelming and undeniable."

    zeteo.com/p/democrats-should-r
    #USpol #USpolitics #2024election #Palestine #DNC #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #USforeignPolicy #GazaGenocide

  15. Return of Paper #Ballots! #DominionVotingSystems voting machine behemoth #Trump & allies baselessly attacked after #2020election sold 2 Missouri-based company run by former #Republican election official. #Dominion is one of biggest #election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the #2024Election. Liberty Vote purchased Canada-based Dominion for an undisclosed sum, according to a person familiar with the transaction. Worried yet about #2026Elections! #maga #gop #democracy

  16. “She Won” election conspiracy theories defy belief and do not help

    Over the past two weeks, I’ve seen a few friends share a post alleging a sweeping conspiracy to steal the presidential election–not the 2020 election, as Donald Trump and his cult followers have been alleging without proof ever since, but the 2024 contest. These friends have not vouched for the theory put forth in that post and a series of others posted at a newsletter site; at most, they’ve said things along the lines of “these raise interesting questions.”

    So I read those “This Will Hold” posts and a separate report posted by a group called the Common Coalition. To summarize thousands of words of copy: They allege that surprising results in swing states and even individual counties–notably, voters choosing Democrats downballot and then picking Trump or not voting for any presidential candidate–are too statistically unlikely to be the result of voters making their own choices and instead are the result of an elaborate plot involving compromised Tripp Lite uninterruptible power supplies that were remotely reprogrammed on Elon Musk’s orders via SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to change vote totals on Dominion and ES&S voting systems.

    No, really. Speaking as a tech journalist who has written a fair amount about SpaceX and as a poll worker who has put in 15-plus hour days helping people to vote in nine elections: I’m sorry, but I can only regard them as engagingly-written claptrap. 

    Here’s why I think that:

    • If so many UPSes were shipped with hidden cellular modems and antennas to election offices in counties, cities and states run by Democratic administrations, how have none of them surfaced? (Bear in mind, election offices don’t have huge budgets to buy high-end hardware. I have never seen anything but generic power strips in my own polling places.)
    • At the end of 2024 and still today, Starlink’s only widely-available service to phones is text messaging. SpaceX has done limited tests of data, but Elon Musk was willing to roll the dice on that working clandestinely in dozens or hundreds of devices across the U.S.? 
    • Trump or Musk tweeting out absurd claims or preditions is no kind of proof or confession, because they both shitpost all the time while rarely intersecting with reality.
    • No part of this extensive conspiracy inside SpaceX has leaked at any point, even as SpaceX employees have come forward to accuse Musk of sexual harassment and indifference to workplace safety at considerable risk to themselves. 
    • This Will Hold’s posts don’t mention the “risk-limiting audits” that a growing number of states conduct to check for exactly this kind of post-election ballot tampering. Nevada’s, for example, found “no variations” from the reported results; Wisconsin’s more comprehensive hand count of 10% of all ballots also found zero voting-equipment errors. Ignoring risk-limiting audits in a theory of election fraud is an enormous tell, because election-integrity experts will tell you they’re as essential as hand-marked paper ballots scanned by machines (which is why every state should adopt them). See, for example, the National Academies’ 2018 report Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy.
    • If people really had cast votes for Harris that somehow vanished, why have we not seen that variance in post-election polling and surveys of voters? See, for example, the data-science firm Catalist’s “What Happened in 2024” analysis and the Pew Research Center’s just-published report on 2024 turnout.
    • Many voters really did leave the presidential part of their ballot blank. In Virginia (where the first warnings of a Kamala Harris loss were returns from Loudoun County showing her underperforming Biden’s 2020 numbers), the former vice president got 2,335,395 votes while Sen. Tim Kaine (D) got 2,417,115 votes. In my state and, it seems, others, her problem was Trump getting more turnout from 2020 voters and from new voters than she did.
    • Musk spending $250 million and change to persuade those people to vote probably did shape the outcome. So did Trump lying about his opponent and a great many other things while presenting himself as an icon of never-surrender success, with Fox News amplifying all that. But the die may have been cast when Joe Biden decided to run for reelection despite evident trouble selling his message and then not dropping out until July of 2024—leaving Harris to answer the hardest call to the bullpen in American presidential-election history. 

    The unfortunate and ugly reality is that American voters showed awful judgment last November, and we are now all paying the price for that. There’s just a meanness in this world, as Springsteen sings, and our country is not and has never been exempt from it. Conspiracy theories might help people think otherwise, but this kind of self-delusional behavior will not help write a different script for 2026 and 2028.

    Updated 6/23/2026 with a link to Wisconsin’s audit, since I keep seeing people push this conspiracy theory on Bluesky.

    #2024Election #CommonCoalition #conspiracyTheories #DonaldTrump #electionIntegrity #electionOfficer #ElonMusk #grift #grifters #KamalaHarris #pollWorker #SpaceX #Starlink #ThisWillHold #TrippLite #turnout
  17. @infobeautiful As a consolation prize for being #uncommitted during the #2024election , #ArabAmericans will receive a 10% discount when they book a holiday on the ‘Riviera’ of the #MiddleEast ‘coming soon’ - conditional on getting a visa from #Israel. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    #USpol #FAFO

  18. 2024 in review: We had one job

    This year seemed to be on a pretty good course up until maybe 10 p.m. Nov. 5. I’d enjoyed personal accomplishments like seeing a total solar eclipse turn day into dusk and then watching a rocket launch turn night into day, my country in general seemed to be making serious progress on multiple fronts, and then we seemed poised to close the door on our bizarre infatuation with Donald Trump.

    Sigh.

    I don’t like the decision Americans voters made, but that choice stands and we now can only deal with the consequences of it. Which in the context of my own work probably means writing a lot of stories about moves by the new Trump administration to stall, stop or reverse Biden-administration initiatives in such areas as broadband access, information security, renewable energy and competition.

    Those initiatives have figured in much of my coverage this year, but I also took advantage of my freelancer status to cover stores in space, transportation and aviation that I would have struggled to get to as a staff writer somewhere. Almost 14 years into self-employed existence, I continue to treasure that flexibility to call my own shots.

    Of what I wrote in 2024, these pieces stand out and stand up to me at the end of this year.

    Travel to conferences took me back to Brazil for Web Summit Rio for a second year and added Lithuania to my countries-visited list, while travel to events (some sponsored by organizers) returned me to places like London and the Bay Area. Some of the best parts of those trips were not the places but the people–I’m still not done catching up with friends I’d last seen prior to the pandemic. And one of the best parts of every single trip was landing at National or Dulles and then coming home.

    (You can see a map of those flights after the jump.)

    I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Swiss, GOL and airBaltic; other colors, some of which may be impossible to differentiate, represent American Airlines (red), TAP (green), British Airways and Copa Airlines (other hues of blue), and Alaska, Avelo, and Southwest Airlines (still more shades of blue).

    Map generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz. I updated this post after publishing it to add a screengrab of the map to avoid display errors in Chrome and other browsers; in other news, that site needs to add support for site encryption to avoid those errors.

    #2024Election #2024InReview #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #yearInReview

  19. @PariaSansPortefeuille @palestine @israel

    #ArabAmericans #Biden #Harris #MiddleEast #2024election #USpol #USpolitics #USForeignPolicy #BlueMAGA #Gaza #Palestine #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #WhoKnewGenocideWouldCostVotes #duh

    Typical BS to hide the colossal failure of democrats in 4 years of the zombie president and his fascist pleaser VP.

    It's Al Gore story all over again, but this time they hide the fact that it was the Israel and AIPAC that won in every aspect of the US election and no one dares to mention.

    But hey, keep blaming the Muslims and the Arabs.

  20. "In the months before the election, some believed that most #ArabAmericans, despite their fury at #Biden and their disappointment with #Harris’s inability or unwillingness to distinguish herself in the #MiddleEast, would eventually come home and vote for her anyway. This has been proven resoundingly false."

    thenation.com/article/politics

    #2024election #USpol #USpolitics #USForeignPolicy #BlueMAGA #Gaza #Palestine #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #WhoKnewGenocideWouldCostVotes? /s #duh

    @palestine @israel

  21. "Arab and #MuslimAmericans in the state of Michigan are grappling with a critical choice this election. Nearly 400,000 #ArabAmericans in the state were instrumental in delivering #Michigan to elect Joe #Biden in 2020. This time, however, many feel betrayed by his administration’s support for Israel’s wars in #Gaza and #Lebanon."

    guest: Ali Harb, AJ reporter

    omny.fm/shows/the-take/who-wil

    #2024election #USpol #USpolitics #BlueMAGA #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #UncommittedMovement #USForeignPolicy

    @palestine

  22. #LizCheney shamed her former #RepublicanParty colleagues, and everyone in the #MAGA cult that still supports a #fascist for President in the #2024election, that "their dishonor will live forever." x.com/tripgabriel/status/18491

    Forever? How can she be confident of that? People who use #Ancestry know! ⬇️

    If you're #UltraMAGA and someone in your estranged family (because you're a fascist) is maintaining the #FamilyTree, you likely have "Fascist" in your profile. It won't be #public until you die. ☠️

  23. #MSNBC execs are refusing to air #JacobSoboroff's #documentary about #Trump's #familySeperation program before the #election because they're afraid it will offend #Trump. I'm not even joking. This is an explosive story about one of the most shameful and disgusting chapters in #AmericanHistory, but they're afraid Trump won't like it. The American people deserve to see this. Now.

    #FuckMSNBC #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsAMonster #TrumpIsATraitor #2024election #VoteBlue

    rawstory.com/trump-msnbc-docum