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   Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 12:50:56 JST Shoq

   Not many are aware that Ballotpedia is a classic example of tools that can make change. Not always good change. Unknown to most, it was an initiative of a super-conservative organization with extremist roots. They wanted to weaponize politics to benefit the far right, but were constantly working with bad legislative information. So they created this site to gather the info. Beware. It can still skew hard right when you least expect it.

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     GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑 (gwaldby@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 12:50:57 JST GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑

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     • kcarruthers

     @kcarruthers @shoq I thought Ballotopedia was neutral.

     I'm glad Blue Voter Guide exists.

     Elledeeay repeated this.
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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 12:50:57 JST Shoq

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     • GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑

     @gwaldby @kcarruthers No, they merely say they are “neutral.” Like most right-wing operations, core premises are often just lies. Maintaining plausible neutrality is how they are able to influence whenever they know who is likely to be reading a given piece of content. And like the equally right-wing Real Clear Politics, their site has many missions, and often try to nudge certain races, issues and GOP priorities.

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     kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 12:50:58 JST kcarruthers

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     • GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑

     @shoq @gwaldby I misread that as “BALLETpedia” so that was slightly confusing