Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
“Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left”
Wired:
It took just minutes for the conspiracy theories about the 2024 US presidential election to flood Elon Musk’s X platform after Donald Trump was announced as the winner in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The number of posts… Continue reading
“Republican election denial claims take a hiatus with Trump’s victory”
WaPo:
A remarkable thing happened Tuesday night on an “election integrity” discussion page on the social media platform X, as it became clear that former president Donald Trump was headed to a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.… Continue reading
“Flaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data; A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.”
Wired:
An app developed by the right-wing nonprofit True the Vote to crowdsource claims of voter fraud contained a security flaw that exposed the email addresses of all users who posted or commented on the platform, along with other… Continue reading
“Elon Musk promotes video referencing QAnon in support of Trump”
WaPo:
Elon Musk shared a video in support of Donald Trump that appeared to includereferences to the extremistQAnon ideology and footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, elevating the radicalized movement on the eveningbefore millions… Continue reading
“A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time”
CNN:
An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election. The payment was one of several the man said… Continue reading
“Trump Claims ‘Illegal Alien’ Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.”
Andy Kroll for ProPublica:
Unfounded claims about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and noncitizens in the 2024 election.
Away from the spotlight, though, at least one Republican National Committee official is telling volunteer poll watchers a completely… Continue reading
“Trump escalates false claims of fraud, setting stage to cry foul if he loses”
WaPo:
Donald Trump, who blamed his 2020 defeat on false claims of vast election malfeasance, has spent much of the final week of his third presidential campaign trying to discredit the legitimacy of this year’s election.
His latest… Continue reading
“Elon Musk’s misleading election claims have been viewed more than 2 billion times on X, analysis finds”
Marshall Cohen for CNN:
In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims about the election on his social media platform that have generated more than two billion… Continue reading
“How Pro-Trump Activists Highlighted Georgia’s Elections Board”
New Yorker:
In 2021, Cleta Mitchell, the former Trump lawyer who tried to block the 2020 vote from being certified, formed a national coalition called the Election Integrity Network. It has been recruiting volunteers to hunt for voter fraud… Continue reading
“Efforts to combat disinformation in retreat as voters head to the polls”
WaPo:
During the chaos after the 2020 election, tech companies erected unprecedented defenses to prevent misinformation from spreading on their platforms.
Twitter’s Trust and Safety team added fact-checking labels to false claims about the election and blocked some of then-President… Continue reading
“Trump and Vance Escalate Efforts to Sow Doubts on Pennsylvania Voting”//”Trump lagging in early vote with seniors in Pennsylvania, a red flag for GOP” (These Stories Are Related!)
NYT:
Former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, escalated their false attacks about the security of the Pennsylvania elections on Thursday, ramping up baseless accusations about voter fraud that could erode confidence of… Continue reading
New York Times: “Election Falsehoods Take Off on YouTube as It Looks the Other Way”
NYT:
In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States: the falsehood that President Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald J. Trump.
Within months, the largest video platform became… Continue reading
“Georgia election officials debunk video of immigrants voting illegally”
AJC:
A video claiming a group of Haitians illegally voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia was likely the work of Russian troll farms working to sow doubts about the U.S. election, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said… Continue reading