In Broad Daylight – Ep. 28 – “The 2020 Iowa Caucuses and the Democratic Misinformation Machine”

Adam looks into the shadowy band of social media manipulators behind the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses, and their highly problematic ties to the Pete Buttigieg campaign.

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Reference Links

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/iowa-caucuses-what-happened/index.html

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/government/2016/03/01/microsoft-technology-powers-the-2016-iowa-caucuses/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dems-iowa-caucus-voting-app-stirs-security-concerns-11580063221

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-allies-promote-iowa-caucus-conspiracy-theories-as-dems-feud?ref=scroll

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/02/04/iowa-caucus-democratic-party-blames-app-coding-error-results-delay/4653639002/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman-spends-millions-to-grow-democracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/dark-money-democrats-midterm-071725

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/07/facebook-is-investigating-political-pages-ads-another-group-backed-by-reid-hoffman/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-25/acronym-s-newsrooms-are-a-liberal-digital-spin-on-local-news?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/write-in-candidates-watch-alabama-race-settle-back-into-red-blue-split/2017/12/05/586ea266-d9c2-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/alabama-dirty-tricksters-invited-a-new-york-times-reporter

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iowa-app-and-the-clinton-cabal-11581099603

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17561538/denaturalization-citizenship-task-force-janus

https://gen.medium.com/a-knee-jerk-reaction-that-could-hand-trump-the-election-c002a0ff11e2

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