CNN Data Guru Blasts Trump Over 'Dumbest' Conspiracy Theory - The Daily Beast
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When votes keep arriving after Election Day, conspiracy theories fill the uncertainty gap — and this story shows exactly how misinformation exploits the public's poor grasp of how ballot counting works.
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Theory Briefing
- CNN's data analyst publicly debunked Trump's 'rigging' claims about the LA mayor race, calling them the 'dumbest' conspiracy theory.
- The accusation exploits a well-known pattern: late-arriving mail ballots skew Democratic, making normal vote shifts look suspicious to the uninformed.
- The Illusory Truth Effect means repeating a false 'rigging' narrative — even to refute it — risks embedding it further in public belief.