‘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.
Social media rumors targeting vote-by-mail options falsely claimed California’s governor made a change to voting preferences in order to make it difficult to vote in person.
Despite what people are saying on social media, a circulating photograph does not show “thousands of Seattle Democrats” gathering in person to demand mail-in voting.
A Twitter user’s suggestion drew attention amid rapidly escalating concerns about access to voting.
Amid rumors that U.S. President Donald Trump sought to interfere with USPS service, he purportedly told anchor Maria Bartiromo that “without a deal” there wouldn’t be “universal mail-in voting.”
Multiple Facebook posts warned Americans not to use USPS to mail their mail-in ballots; it’s true that voters could often bypass the United States Postal Service, but with important caveats.
A flap between the White House press secretary and Kimberly Halkett was inflamed online.
A late-night Trump tweet about shooting protesters was quickly swept into an unrelated dispute about Twitter “fact check” labels.