Politicians, lies and election legitimacy – it's an old story
- Written by Gideon Cohn-Postar, Graduate Student in History, Northwestern University
Lies can help a political campaign be successful.Shutterstock
If you lose an election to an opponent because an interest group runs ads based on false information against you, is the election result legitimate?
The 2016 presidential election featured a Russian troll farm that used fake social media accounts to try to turn voters against Hillary...
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