How Disinformation Destroyed Democracy

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Building on their successes in 2016, foreign and domestic actors ramped up disinformation and digital voter suppression for the 2020 election. All too often tech platforms took no meaningful action to stop disinformation. As the election grew closer, grassroots groups fought back. As well as successfully pressuring tech platform companies to act, grassroots organizing -- including disinformation monitoring and response projects -- proved a valuable complement to other efforts. Learning from what worked, and what didn’t, is key to continuing to ongoing successes.