(18 Oct 2024)
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Black Mountain, North Carolina – 17 October 2024
1. Wide of a sign for the Black Mountain public library
2. Wide of people in line to vote
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Michael Sobol, Black Mountain, North Carolina:
"Some of the challenges, which is the challenges that democracy is facing, is, is the lies. We’ve just had a tremendous disaster here, as you probably have seen. And so we’ve had to deal with people talking about FEMA and saying that FEMA not doing their job. Well, they’re doing their job. FEMA is not Jesus Christ. I mean, they can’t go ahead and get this thing fixed in one day, but they are doing the job. The poll workers are doing their job. The problem is, is we got a lot of people who are, who like to sow some seeds of mistruths. And then those seeds get get morphed into a bigger seed and a bigger seed."
4. Tight on political signs outside a voting location
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Miller, Black Mountain, North Carolina:
"Are you kidding me? Guess what? FEMA is here. FEMA is helping the best they can. They have outposts and stuff. And the lies that I’ve been hearing have made me very angry. And it was one more reason why I was going to vote today."
6. Person walking past early voting sign
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Ferry, Black Mountain, North Carolina:
"Seek seek information far and wide, and then you can make an intelligent, un-propagandized decision or at least spot where the propaganda is and then find the truth in it for yourself as best as you can. Which is why coming back around, why the First Amendment is so important. You can’t have censorship of this speech or that speech
with the excuse of, ‘It’s disinformation or it’s hate speech.’ You know, that right there? Who’s, who’s to say what is disinformation? Right? Because a lot of ‘disinformation’ comes out to be true after time has vetted it and truth has come out. So that’s why our First Amendment is the most critical point that we preserve so that people can seek out and find the truth and not have bits of it decided on by others that, ‘Oh this is not true, you can’t hear this.’"
8. Wide of a line of people waiting to vote
9. Wide of cars driving past political signs
STORYLINE:
Voters in western North Carolina were thinking about how misinformation impacted how they voted in the upcoming presidential election.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency faced rampant disinformation about its response to Hurricane Helene, which came ashore in Florida on Sept. 26 before heading north and leaving a trail of destruction across six states. Reports of threats to aid workers sparked a temporary shift in how FEMA was operating in western North Carolina.
During the first day of early voting on Thursday in Black Mountain, North Carolina, long lines of people were ready to cast their ballots even as they endured homes without power or running water.
Michael Sobol, mayor of Black Mountain, said he was encouraged by the turnout even with all the challenges people were facing.
"Some of the challenges, which is the challenges that democracy is facing, is, is the lies," said Sobol. "We’ve just had a tremendous disaster here, as you probably have seen. And so we’ve had to deal with people talking about FEMA and saying that FEMA not doing their job. Well, they’re doing their job."
He said that rumors get larger when they are spread.
"The problem is, is we got a lot of people who are, who like to sow some seeds of mistruths," said Sobol. "And then those seeds get get morphed into a bigger seed and a bigger seed."
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