2020 election disinformation targeted voters of color and 2024 will be worse, groups say
Community organizations are preparing for what they expect to be a worsening onslaught of disinformation targeting communities of color and immigrant communities.
Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Doctored images showed dogs urinating on Donald Trump campaign posters.
None of these claims was true, but they scorched through social media sites that advocates say have fueled election misinformation in communities of color.