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'It's a fine target': Census bureau to fight misinformation

By AMANDA SEITZ and
RACHEL LERMAN
CHICAGO (AP) — Worried
about internet trolls and
foreign powers spreading
false news, census officials
are preparing to battle mis-
information campaigns for
the first time in the count's
230-year history.
The stakes are huge. Who
participates in the 2020
census count could influ-
ence how U.S. congres-
sional seats and billions of
federal tax dollars to edu-
cate children, help low-
income families and pave
new roads are divvied up.
"It's a fine target," former
U.S. Census Bureau director
John Thompson said of the
form, which is sent every
decade to households in In this June 27, 2019, file photo, demonstrators gather at the Supreme Court as the justices finish the term with key decisions on ger-
America to count the pop- rymandering and a census case involving an attempt by the Trump administration to ask everyone about their citizenship status in
ulation. the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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