Report: Far-Right Extremists Infiltrate Black & Latino Groups to Push "Non-Voting Narratives"

[RamsayBolton]

Murphy Bannerman first noticed the posts this summer in a Facebook group called Being Black in Arizona.

Someone started posting memes full of false claims that seemed designed to discourage people from voting.

The memes were "trying to push this narrative of, 'The system is a mess and there's no point in you participating,' " Bannerman said. She recalled statements such as, " 'Democrats and Republicans are the same. There's no point in voting.' 'Obama didn't do anything for you during his term, why should you vote for a Democrat this time around?' "

Black and Latino voters are being flooded with similar messages in the final days of the election, according to voting rights activists and experts who track disinformation.

These tactics echo Russian election interference on social media four years ago when operatives working for the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency focused heavily on America's racial divisions, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference.

This year, these campaigns are even more widespread, voting rights activists say. And while in most cases, it's not clear who is behind the disinformation, the intent is unmistakable: to depress turnout among people of color by fueling cynicism and distrust in the political process.

"We are now talking about this misinformation as a part of the same trajectory as a poll tax, as a literacy test," he said. "A sustained campaign targeted at Black Americans — and often brown Americans as well — to limit our political power, to limit our ability to shape the decisions that are made in this country."

 

[Luke Cage]

already found the no vote crew sus.

People here on the coli claiming black people are shills and only voting for democrats out of tradition. Meanwhile our conservative scotus is out here wilding.

 

[Black Mamba]

Well well look at that.
All these people here that was claiming the no vote shyt including their daddy head c00n tariq

 

[Apollo Kid]

 

[BaggerofTea]

With thecoli being ground zero.

None voting along with the election is stolen narrative that @Rell Lauren is pushing should be auto bushes.

It adds nothing to forum discourse

 

[Ghost Utmost]

It's a strange place to be in when shyt like this is obvious to you but it takes literally YEARS for it to become clear to average people

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

We suspected this to be the case.​

 

[tuckgod]

Instead of the scare tactics fix the issues that’s making it so easy for them to run the conspiracy.

If it’s a conspiracy.

 

[Elim Garak]

It's not surprising obviously it's not logical.

 

[Tair]

If you are relatively smart or competent, you know voting is vital. So those tactics wouldn't work on such people.

 

[GMoney]

Black voters turned out in 2020 though (two-year-old link your posting), so these online infiltrations have/had what impact on turnout exactly?

Seems unlikely that a reasonable amount of registered black voters (who lean older) are not going to turn out because of something they saw on social media. I've said this numerous times before, show me how many black voters are staying home because of this?

A lot of this conjecture is formulated by people who do all their politics online. Jim Clyburn and Stacey Abrahms show how you turn out black voters, and it's not posting on social 24/7.

 

[Velvet_Ace]

Well well look at that.
All these people here that was claiming the no vote shyt including their daddy head c00n tariq

Breh the Tariq supporters are so pathetic. The simple fat that this man openly promoted a book about "buck breaking" and made it popular among the far right extremists should tell you everything.

Sick of seeing the talking points of this grifter given credence on the Coli.

 

[the bossman]

'Democrats and Republicans are the same. There's no point in voting.'

almost damn near word for word coli rhetoric

 

[Phantum]

Duh. Every black person should be voting for the simple fact that white people really don't want you to.

 

[broller]

Duh. Every black person should be voting for the simple fact that white people really don't want you to.

Facts.

And like Jalen Rose said, black people especially should be voting because of what we had to do to get to vote.