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Analysis: Election conspiracies persist, even with different outcomes in the 2024 election
We just had another election with a clear and verifiable victor, overseen by hundreds of thousands of election officials. Those public servants have suffered years of harassment, and despite their successes, are still being accused of taking part in a ...
Archived 2 days ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post That Joe Scarborough ‘Approached Me Like A Scolded Dog’ At Mar-a-Lago
No Record Did Donald Trump post on his Truth Social account that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough "approached me like a scolded dog" during a post-election meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence? No, that's not true: Lead Stories searched the president-elect's profile ...
Election Deniers Got What They Wanted. They’re Still Going
Mike Lindell has spent the past four years desperately trying to prove the 2020 election was stolen from president-elect Donald Trump. In the early hours of November 6, attending Trump’s election night watch party, Lindell’s crusade appeared to be at ...
MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson slams liberal conspiracy theories about voter fraud: ‘No evidence that any of it i...
MSNBC political contributor Jason Johnson condemned conspiracy theories being spread online by supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris alleging that the vote count was fraudulent because Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellites rigged machines to tip the election to President-elect Donald ...
Voters sent a host of extremists and conspiracy theorists to the AZ Capitol
Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona MirrorArizona has been a hotbed for conspiratorial and extremist ideology, and a number of incoming lawmakers — some returning to the Capitol and others who will be new legislators — will likely continue ...
Election denialism emerges on the left after Trump’s win
In the days following the presidential election, a familiar strain of denialism and conspiracy thinking began to emerge in the corners of some social media platforms. On the right, familiar conspiracy theories about voting popularized by President-elect Donald Trump continued ...
Bob Casey isn’t conceding the US Senate race. But he’s not denying the integrity of the election resul...
PHILADELPHIA — As Pennsylvania's razor-thin U.S. Senate race heads to a recount, allies of President-elect Donald Trump have claimed Sen. Bob Casey is working to steal an election, drawing false parallels between Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results ...
Archived 5 days ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Remove Pronouns From X Bio After 2024 Election — It Was Months Earlier
Gone Earlier Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, commonly known as AOC, delete her pronouns from her account on X shortly after the 2024 election? No, that's not true: It happened months earlier. According to archived copies of the lawmaker's account, pronouns ...
Archived 4 days ago from FactCheck.org
No Evidence Harris Campaign Paid for Celebrity Endorsements
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Vice President Kamala Harris received many celebrity endorsements leading up to the election, including from Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, Eminem, Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo. Social media posts have ...
Starlink Election Fraud Claims Show Dems Are Not Immune to Conspiracy Theories
After the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump and his allies floated numerous hypotheses to explain his loss. One theory, which came to be known as "Italygate," posited that Italian military satellites had interfered with American voting machines and switched votes ...
QAnon-Like Conspiracies That Musk Used Starlink To Steal U.S. Election Won’t Stop Spreading
After running a campaign built on nothing more than bigotry and empty promises, Donald Trump won the election. As you can imagine, anyone who still has something resembling a moral center has a problem with that, but unfortunately for all ...
The Conspiracy Theory That Elon Musk Stole the Election Using Starlink Is Everywhere Now
On November 9, a TikTok user called Etheria77 posted a nine-minute long video in which she outlined a conspiracy theory suggesting that Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellite system was used as part of a sophisticated effort to steal the election ...
Archived 7 days ago from The Burning Platform
Did US Deep State Allow Trump to Win?
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts This question raised by Mike Whitney and others has caught the attention of the astute Russian journalist Ekaterina Blinova: https://sputnikglobe.com/20241112/did-us-deep-state-allow-trump-to-win-1120861699.html Blinova understands that the American Deep State, if its members believe Trump’s statements, have ...
Archived 1 week ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: Police Did NOT Say That Woman Overwhelmed By Trump Election Killed Her Father With Ice Ax
Doc Disproves Did Seattle police say that a woman charged with killing her father with an ice ax was overwhelmed by President-elect Donald Trump's election? No, that's not true: Police wrote in a probable cause report that the woman accused ...
Archived 1 week ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Admit Undocumented Immigrants Vote
Didn't Say It Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admit that undocumented immigrants vote in U.S. elections? No, that's not true: She actually said families of undocumented people vote, not the undocumented themselves. Her full quote in context comes from her own ...
Archived 1 week ago from Snopes Fact Checks
No Evidence Musk’s Starlink Network Was Used To ‘Rig’ 2024 Election
Claim: Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network was used to tally swing state votes during the 2024 election, allowing him to "rig" or "hack" the election in favor of Trump. After the 2024 presidential election in the U.S., a rumor started ...
Left-Wing Conspiracy Theory That Kamala Harris Won Election Spreads Online
A conspiracy theory is spreading on some left-wing social media that Donald Trump won the election fraudulently and that Kamala Harris will become president once this is exposed.These wild rumors appear to have no basis in anything said by Harris, ...
‘BlueAnon’ Conspiracies Grip Dems After Trump’s Election Sweep
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election night victory, a rising set of Democratic voters are having a difficult time accepting the results.So much so, that some election conversations have devolved into a set of extreme beliefs called ...
Archived 1 week ago from Snopes Fact Checks
No Evidence Trump Ever Said Republicans Are the ‘Dumbest Group of Voters’
Claim: In 1998, Donald Trump said he would run as a Republican in a presidential campaign because they are the "dumbest group of voters." For years, claims have spread that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump once told People magazine in 1998 ...
Archived 1 week ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: NO Evidence Meghan Markle Said She Would Leave US In Response To Trump’s Election
Didn't Say Did Meghan Markle say she would leave the U.S. in response to Donald Trump's election, as a post on Facebook implies? No, that's not true: Lead Stories could not find proof that the wife of Prince Harry said ...