So, here we are, a few weeks out from Election Day 2020, early voting already well underway — and pretty much everything that every disinformation watcher warned you was going to happen is happening.

We need to avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy of political violence during and after the election.

I think we can all agree that there are a lot of pretty stupid things that politicians say and pretty stupid theories that politicians repeat that we can mostly just ignore because it isn’t hurting anything — other than our heads. But this is not that.

I think we can all agree that there are a lot of pretty stupid things that politicians say and pretty stupid theories that politicians repeat that we can mostly just ignore because it isn’t hurting anything — other than our heads. But this is not that.

It is important to evaluate interviews like AG Bill Barr's one not just in the context of fact-checking or as truth or not. These interviews construct narrative that will guide how we view, perceive, and interpret events between now and the election.