🤲🏻💨👀💨William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

Nearly 40 years later, the words of William J. Casey, CIA director still resound as we sit just weeks away from a moment of reckoning for our Democracy. Here's one thing we know for certain, the proclamation that Director Casey made is far from complete, but what we also know that there has been no lack of attempts made in doing so.

The spread of disinformation has been a perpetual attempt to tarnish and erode our democracy, and we must do everything in our power to fight it. The allowance of foreign interference in our elections has shown that the results of this election not only impact us as Americans but many countries abroad. We've seen the ongoing attempts to spread inaccurate data within the African-American community on a number of fronts. From falsified information on the date of the election to misinformation on the steps needed to verify your registration, there has been no stone unturned in attempts to ensure that the vote of the African American community is discredited or that we don't take our full authority at this moment by voting. The NAACP has continued to fight at all costs to identify disinformation and to thwart it with valid facts so that our community can make informed and intelligent decisions when casting our ballot in this upcoming election.