Popular Information: “Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump’s Deplorable Army, To The Death Media, and One Angry Conservative — to spread disinformation about voting in the 2020 election to millions of people. The network operates by funneling traffic to Conservative Brief, an obscure right-wing website. Conservative Brief does not engage in any original reporting. Instead, it distorts reports from mainstream sources to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the upcoming election. ”

“Here is how it works. On July 13, the Associated Press reported that California had rejected about 100,000 absentee ballots submitted in the March presidential primary — about 1.5% of the total. Most of these ballots, 70,330, were rejected because they arrived late. The state requires ballots to be ‘postmarked on or before Election Day and received within three days afterward.’ Others ‘either didn’t have a signature, or the signature didn’t match the one on record for the voter.’ This report was then aggregated on the Conservative Brief on July 14. Author Martin Walsh wrote that the story ‘lends credence’ to Trump’s claim that mail-in voting ‘can pave the way for mass fraud.’ Walsh said the story means it will be easy ‘for election works [sic] to simply throw away ballots that they collected from an area in which they assume was more conservative than liberal.’ All of these claims are baseless.”