Liz Landers is a national correspondent leading the disinformation desk at Scripps News.
Scripps News visits Surry County, North Carolina, where an election official has been targeted by disinformation and threats by Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was stolen.We hear from Michella Huff, who began to receive phone calls and public questions about whether the 2020 election was valid.'I was cornered and pressed for twenty minutes,' she said of one confrontation. 'All of a sudden election officials are people to not be trusted and not believed.
They claimed they had proof that the machines had contacted cellular towers on Election Day in 2020.'I didn't expect to have to think about the safety of myself, my staff, my family,' Huff said. 'But that began to be a reality.'RELATED STORY | Truth be Told: How AI is posing a new disinformation threat this electionElection administration is overwhelmingly female. About 80% of election workers in the U.S., including Huff's team, are women.
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