WaPo's Philip Bump on election misinformation and why it's happening...
Bump writes that he's long wondered why, if Lindell has all this evidence, he doesn't simply turn it over to law enforcement.
"Well, there's one good reason for that, as demonstrated to Lindell while he sat at a fast-food drive-through on Tuesday: The FBI works slowly."
*snip*
"Also this week, a company called Konnech filed a defamation suit against the group True the Vote. True the Vote is the organization that purports to have uncovered evidence of a massive ballot-moving scheme in the 2020 election, the claim at the core of Dinesh D’Souza’s film '2000 Mules.' But True the Vote has never provided any actual evidence of their claim and the film offers no evidence of people dumping ballots in multiple drop boxes. So, at its own summit this summer, True the Vote tried to turn the page on '2000 Mules' — evidence still unseen — pointing its supporters instead at purported nefariousness from Konnech."
*snip*
"Take your pick: That the government is deeply corrupt, that the election was stolen, that the left can't be trusted. Each of those is accepted as fact by millions of Americans. So there is a model for purported evidence that bolsters these points. Wild assertions about 'false-flag' shootings. Claims about Chinese hackers changing votes. Complicated-sounding analyses of cellphone data. There's lots of misinformation that never moves an inch because there's no fuel for it. But these claims are exactly what some people want to hear, so they take off."
(didn't hit paywall)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/14/election-misinformation-mike-lindell/