Source: Common Dreams
by James Zogby
“In the run-up to the November election, we are witnessing a massive expenditure of ‘dark money’ in a disinformation campaign designed to depress the Arab American vote in Michigan and the American Jewish vote in Pennsylvania. During the past three election cycles we’ve seen ‘dark money’ play an increasingly important role in U.S. elections. Dark money refers to expenditures from groups that ostensibly operate independently from official campaigns and whose funds need not be reported. We’ve also seen disinformation campaigns before; that is, organized efforts to use deceptive, misleading, or exaggerated claims for political advantage. A dark money group undertook such an effort in 2020, when it sought to derail Sen. Bernie Sanders’[s] [I-VT] presidential campaign with a sizable television ad buy claiming he was too old … or that he was too radical to win.” (10/21/24)