FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 19, 2022
Contact: Emily Phelps | press@indivisible.org
Washington, D.C.— Last Wednesday, Indivisible’s Truth Brigade hosted a Truth Summit, a live Zoom training with over 1000+ activists, to share strategies and tactics that people can use to actively identify and fight against election disinformation that leads to voter suppression. Keynote speaker Dan Pfeiffer, host of Pod Save America and author of Battling The Big Lie, spoke about where people are most vulnerable to being deceived by disinformation and how we can disrupt voting-related disinformation through effective messaging ahead of the midterm elections.
Dan Pfeiffer on political disinformation and grassroots solutions:
“From 2016 and beyond the right-wing disinformation and propaganda machine, in my view, is the most powerful weapon in American politics.”
“If we do not solve the problem of the massive right-wing advantage in pushing disinformation and propaganda, their media advantage, then we will continue to end up on the short end of the stick in policy fights, elections, and certainly in 2024.”
“I really believe that a grassroots, bottoms up distributed messaging approach is the only way Democrats are going to win the information wars. I’m incredibly excited that you good people are here, that Indivisible is taking this project on. I want more and more people within the party to do it. I would like to see more and more folks in the party at the highest levels embrace this form of messaging by willing to push responsibility down the grassroots to empower people, to give them the tools, technology, and time to do this right.”
Click here to view the full recording of Truth Brigade’s Truth Summit.
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