NPR: Right-wing election fraud conspiracies have failed to gain significant traction online

This is rich; NPR is reporting that “right-wing” election fraud conspiracies have failed to gain significant traction online after Tuesday’s election. Conservatives are still waiting for them to count the votes in Nevada and Arizona … is that a fraud conspiracy? Nevada has said it could be November 18 before the results are finalized. Twenty percent of voting machines in Maricopa County didn’t work, but we were assured all votes would be taken downtown and counted. They ran out of paper in Pennsylvania and Texas. But no, no conspiracy theories have taken off.

But let’s talk about “left-wing” election conspiracies. On Election Day afternoon, even before the results had come in, an MSNBC guest assured us that the results in Georgia —where Stacey Abrams lost again — were not to be trusted, as voter suppression there was off the charts … even worse than it was in 2018. “We can’t say that whatever happens tonight is a fair and equitable election,” said election denier Jason Johnson on cable news.

Oh, and speaking of MSNBC, Rachel Maddow said that the far-right in Arizona had been using open-carry as political intimidation, without providing a single concrete example. Sounds like another of her conspiracy theories to us.

So far, right-wing election fraud conspiracies have failed to gain significant traction online. https://t.co/LhIuLjpagK

— NPR (@NPR) November 10, 2022

NPR, you suck so hard. Huo Jingnan and Danielle Kaye write:

After filtering out keywords commonly used by news media reporting on conspiracy theories, NPR has identified just over 200,000 tweets and retweets on the subject, with the most influential tweet getting nearly 60,000 interactions — which are not huge numbers for Twitter.

In a separate incident, former President Donald Trump posted on his right-wing social network Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon calling for protests in Detroit over voters allegedly being turned away at polling places.

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Emma Steiner, a disinformation analyst with the government watchdog group Common Cause, says election deniers are scrambling to find effective narratives for spreading disinformation about the midterm elections.

“Because [GOP] candidates like Dr. [Mehmet] Oz in Pennsylvania and Tudor Dixon in Michigan have already conceded, that makes it a little more difficult for supporters to push claims of election fraud,” Steiner told reporters Wednesday.

NPR will continue to monitor the spread of conspiracies as votes are still being counted for contentious races in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia.