‘Election Fraud is Real, and It’s Happening Right Now’
Popular posts purportedly used unrelated or decontextualized images to make baseless claims about “election fraud” by way of discarded ballots.
Popular posts purportedly used unrelated or decontextualized images to make baseless claims about “election fraud” by way of discarded ballots.
As election workers continued to count votes, yet another baseless conspiracy theory — this one about “watermarked ballots” and election fraud — appeared and was circulated by the usual grifters and disinformation purveyors.
A Twitter user trying to gin up a controversy couldn’t even get the state right.
Posts and tweets advised residents of the state to check the status of their votes, advising them that they had a window of opportunity to “cure” their ballot if it had been rejected.
“Sharpie ballots” in Arizona became an intense focus on social media amid false claims poll workers distributed Sharpie markers and caused spoiled ballots.
A tweet spreading disinformation about Wisconsin having counted more votes than there are registered voters was deleted, but that sort of claim tends to hang around.
The account has already posted incorrect information about electoral college votes and states that have been definitively called — even before polls closed throughout much of the United States.
Conspiracy theories about mysteriously “placed” piles of bricks predictably emerged as voters went to the polls.
A right-wing talk show host and longtime disinformation purveyor made a laughingstock of himself while trying to smear Rep. Ilhan Omar online.
A short clip on TikTok appeared to show the Democratic Party candidate saying, “I’m going to take on those rapist Mexicans” — but another TikTok video quickly addressed the claim.