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@AGHamilton29
The GA election law is so revealing of the way the press works these days. Most publication had reporters that didn’t bother to read the law and just wrote it up based on what activists told them was in it, which matched Dem spin & was a complete distortion of reality.
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@AGHamilton29
There were some exceptions that wrote good explainers (ex: Business Insider), but the overall narrative was completely created by activists and almost impossible to challenge now. The reliance on activists, and mostly from 1 side, to frame these stories has become a real issue.
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@AGHamilton29
It’s a simple truth that the GA law expanded voter access compared to any pre-pandemic election. That’s hard to dispute with actual facts. But no one who read the coverage would possibly come away with that conclusion.
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@AGHamilton29
And the narrative-setting just feeds more misinformation as you then have 100 follow-up stories demanding every company and politician condemn the law based on the version that was invented by activists/pols yelling about it being the 21st century equivalent of Jim Crow.
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I saw a lot of ridiculous stuff being shared on social media so I went and spent time actually reading the bill earlier this week, was surprised at how radically different the reporting was on what the law actually said. such a strange disconnect between the reporting and reality
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