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What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

Update: 2024-09-042
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How has a phrase that just a decade ago had a narrow, technical definition come to essentially represent anything political that we don’t like? Jon Allsop, who writes Columbia Journalism Review’s daily newsletter and contributed this week to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how “election interference” has become a ubiquitous term and what that indicates about the future of American political discourse. “It’s a project that is designed to insulate candidates against losing, whether they actually lose or not,” Allsop said. 




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What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

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