This would worsen the tumult to hold the election amid the pandemic and the uncertainty created by Trump’s claim that Democrats will commit massive fraud by mail-in balloting.
The Democrats say Trump’s statements are a part of his strategy to muddy the waters around mail ballots where their candidate, Joe Biden, has an advantage.
In an age of half-truth, fake news and misrepresented facts, spotting lies has become a nuanced art that requires understanding and differentiating human motivation from human error.
The sheer scale of the spread of misinformation is astonishing, write Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas in their book on election rigging. Read an excerpt here.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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