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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Professor at University of Washington, HCDE. Cofounder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Researcher of online rumors and disinformation. Also, former basketball player (Stanford, ABL, WNBA).
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Rapid analysis from our team re: an error w/in an election system in AZ that was exploited to levy false claims of mass voting by non-citizens. This rumor uses a common tactic of seizing upon a real issue, but warping its meaning to fit a "rigged elction" frame. uwcip.substack.com/p/error-in-a...
Error in Arizona’s Voter Registration System Fuels Rumors of Non-Citizen Voting
Rapid Research Post
We track the spread of these rumors — which misleadingly framed a software error that failed to flag compliance issues with new voter laws for old (<1996) registrations — across influencers on X, including claims of a "cover-up" as administrators predicted false rumors would emerge around the error.
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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Professor at University of Washington, HCDE. Cofounder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Researcher of online rumors and disinformation. Also, former basketball player (Stanford, ABL, WNBA).
11.7k followers1.3k following1.5k posts