Michelle Sinnott Petersen was targeted in a campaign that may have cost her a school board seat.
ALAMO — Michelle Sinnott Petersen was sitting in her home office a few days before the November election when her computer began blowing up with urgent messages.seat on the San Ramon Valley Unified School District board
“It was only a matter of time,” said Darrell West, a Brookings Institution scholar and expert on political disinformation. “It’s so easy to spread misinformation today because of digital tools and social media platforms.” She wanted to give something back and so, when her son entered kindergarten, she became an advocate for gun safety and violence prevention, volunteering in some of the Bay Area’s roughest neighborhoods.
His candidacy was boosted by a murky group calling itself “East Bay Educators,” which shared the bogus eleventh-hour allegations regarding Petersen and her 2014 departure from the San Jose Fire Department.
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