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    "parsed_content": "The Race for CongressNational Citizenship DatabaseWhen to Vote in Your StateLatest PollsCompetitive RacesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTBlack Voting Groups Prepare for Disinformation Campaigns in the MidtermsA new \u201cpropaganda playbook\u201d aims to demystify common techniques used to target Black Americans, long a powerful voting bloc, with election-related disinformation.Listen \u00b7 5:54 min Share full articleBlack voters have been the target of disenfranchisement campaigns, and some groups and public figures are trying to counter those efforts.Credit...Nick Hagen for The New York TimesBy Tiffany HsuReporting from San FranciscoSept. 29, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Between artificially generated fakes, character assassination campaigns and tactics with names like \u201ccrisis profiteering\u201d and \u201ccynicism bombing,\u201d Black voters are encountering a host of disinformation efforts ahead of the November midterm election.But public figures, organizations and others representing the powerful voting bloc \u2014 one long targeted by disenfranchisement campaigns \u2014 have been preparing a defense for months.Black influencers, some with more than a million followers on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, warned against deceptive efforts to dissuade Black people from voting. The NAACP produced research and primers on race-based disinformation. Think tanks published playbooks to train voters to spot signs of manipulation and deception, while also calling for legislation to punish it.Black voters, for years a reliable constituency for Democrats, are especially on edge following a series of legal and technological setbacks, political experts said. In the spring, the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, a landmark civil rights law, making way for Republican states to redraw their congressional maps and igniting fears of diluted Black representation.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTArtificial intelligence is also improving at warp speed, enabling fake content \u2014 including racist and unflattering portrayals of Black politicians and celebrities \u2014 to spread more quickly.\u201cIn 2026, not only are we going to see all of this at a velocity that no previous generation has faced, we are seeing this at a moment in time where we cannot assume that there will be larger forces that can help stem this,\u201d said Esosa Osa, the founder of Onyx Impact, a registered nonpartisan nonprofit group that works to protect Black communities from digital harms. \u201cIt\u2019s going to need to be community-driven.\u201dMs. Osa, who has worked on several Democratic campaigns, spoke earlier this month at an online briefing about a \u201cpropaganda playbook\u201d created by Onyx to address election disinformation. The 41-page field guide, which was made public Tuesday, is meant to help voters, social media creators and others recognize what the organization calls \u201cthe most dangerous moment many communities have faced in the information environment in a generation.\u201dOnyx is not alone. One civil rights group put out a \u201cBlack Voters Survival Guide\u201d; another focused a podcast episode on media literacy amid an \u201cinfodemic.\u201d A Black history organization arranged a town hall about disinformation and voter fraud claims.ImageEsosa Osa, head of Onyx, a group fighting election disinformation that targets Black communities.Credit...Ariana Gomez for The New York TimesEfforts to suppress or manipulate Black political participation predates social media, but are now operating at higher speed, scale and precision, said Danielle A. Canty, the director of technology policy at the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cBlack Americans aren\u2019t targeted because they\u2019re uniquely gullible or susceptible to this \u2014 they\u2019re targeted because the Black vote matters,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we just let this information run rampant, to the point where it discourages voters or makes them feel like their vote doesn\u2019t count, we\u2019re essentially taking ourselves out of the game.\u201dGet updates when new midterm election polls are added to our poll trackers. When new polling data drops we\u2019ll send an update straight to your inbox. Get it sent to your inbox.Information manipulation is one technique, experts said, and A.I. is changing how it is carried out. A fake image of a polling location in a largely Black precinct closing early, for example, would be cheap to make, easy to spread and hard to authenticate, according to the Onyx playbook.During the 2024 presidential campaign, while President Trump was courting Black voters, A.I. images circulated of him being supported by the community. A report this month from the Brennan Center for Justice, a voting rights and democracy group, found that \u201cA.I. is now a standard feature of both influence operations and cyber operations.\u201dIn previous election cycles, social media accounts created by Russian influence operatives and others tried to exploit racial tensions and Black sympathies. In 2020, right-wing political operatives tried to discourage Black New Yorkers from voting via a misleading robocall campaign.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThis spring, the Virginia branch of the NAACP accused a conservative group opposed to a redistricting referendum of trying to deceive voters by distributing mailers with outdated quotes from the state\u2019s governor and former President Barack Obama. The effort, according to the president of the NAACP branch, amounted to \u201cdisinformation designed to sow confusion and suppress the voices of Black voters.\u201dOnyx calls the tactic \u201ccontext extraction,\u201d where real footage is stripped of its original meaning and used to promote a different narrative. Another strategy is called \u201ccynicism bombing,\u201d which tries to tamp down Black voter turnout by weaponizing the community\u2019s legitimate skepticism about voting, casting the act as pointless.This is the \u201cbiggest all-encompassing threat,\u201d Ms. Osa said. In response to the Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act, Black Democratic candidates across the South have been pushing Black voters to defend fair representation by turning out at the polls. Several civil rights groups arranged an emergency meeting online in April, in which the Rev. Al Sharpton said, \u201cWe going in the corner and coming back swinging with all that we have.\u201dAt Onyx\u2019s briefing, Ms. Osa told Black activists, students and others not to treat the playbook \u201cas a reactive document that you take off the shelf when a crisis hits.\u201d\u201cMaking sure that you all are calling out some of these tactics super early is going to be huge,\" she said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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