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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Will Bunch: Why Trump sees Pa. Senate election as test track for 2022′s model of the 'big lie'

This past week brought yet another false claim about election fraud here in Pennsylvania, which a hearty band of truth-tellers worked quickly to debunk in the face of the constant headwinds of misinformation coming from Donald Trump World. This time, it was an allegation that election officials in the Keystone…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mail voting was having a moment. Then came Trump's false fraud claims

WASHINGTON — For a brief time in 2020, it seemed as though the vote-by-mail movement was having a bipartisan moment.

Los Angeles Times

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Column: Drunk Rudy. Loser Trump. How the Jan. 6 hearings' wild comedy weakens the Big Lie

Insurrection is no joke. But it was hard not to laugh during the Jan. 6 committee's public hearings on Monday as the theme of Day 2 came into focus: the truth behind the Big Lie. Witness after witness testified to the outlandish schemes, absurd conspiracy theories and drunken advice President…

Los Angeles Times

Former Philly elections official tells Jan. 6 panel that Trump tweet led to ‘graphic’ threats

PHILADELPHIA — Al Schmidt, the only Republican official in Philadelphia to oversee voting during the 2020 presidential election, on Monday told the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that with a single tweet, then-President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of death threats against him and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump ignored repeated warnings from Barr, advisers that election fraud claims were ‘bogus’

WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and former Attorney General Bill Barr recounted in video depositions their repeated admonitions to former President Donald Trump that his election fraud claims were groundless, in the second hearing this month by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection…

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 panel says Trump fleeced his base and 5 other takeaways from the 2nd hearing

It wasn't in prime time this time, but the Jan. 6 committee held an eyebrow-raising hearing Monday. Here are six takeaways from what we learned during this second of seven hearings.

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The latest January 6 hearing delved into Donald Trump and the 'Big Lie'. These were the big moments

In the second hearing into the former US president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, several Trump insiders described the chaos that unfolded on election night as an "intoxicated" Rudy Guliani concocted a plan to postpone the inevitable.

ABC News

Images reveal threats against Republican official’s family after Trump named him in election tweet

Former Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt testified before the January 6 committee on Monday

The Independent UK

GOP v. Trump: Republicans expose Big Lie

Jan. 6 hearings: Cooperating Republican witnesses will finally lay out the facts

Salon

In election misinformation fight, '2020 changed everything'

As voters get ready for hundreds of elections of local and national importance this year, officials and voting rights advocates are bracing for a repeat of the misinformation that overwhelmed the 2020 presidential election

The Independent UK

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