During the 2022 midterms, groups of people gathered to monitor ballot drop boxes for illegal activity. The false and unsubstantiated claims around ballot harvesting fueled this real-world action,. A small number of really influential accounts on social media participated in this very participatory process with their audiences.
It’s sooo 2016, but the word still mattered a lot in 2022. Merriam-Webster explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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