The Misinformation Election: Lies, Conspiracy Theories Prominent in Many GOP Races

June 6, 2022 2020 election, bill gates, mike lindell, nazi

Archived 4 years ago from Oklahoma Watch
The Misinformation Election: Lies, Conspiracy Theories Prominent in Many GOP Races

PRYOR — Devon Garly spoke up about halfway through Jackson Lahmeyer’s speech. “What about the election fraud?” the 69-year-old Pryor resident asked. “How do we know you’d even be elected if we don’t know our votes are being counted?” Lahmeyer, a 30-year-old Tulsa pastor trying to unseat U.S. Sen. …

Elections

June 5, 2022 2020 election, george soros, mike lindell, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The New York Times
In Races to Run Elections, Candidates Are Backed by Key 2020 Deniers

Key figures in the effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election have thrown their weight behind a slate of Republican candidates for secretary of state across the country, injecting specious theories about voting machines, foreign hacking and voter fraud into campaigns that will determine who …

Trump Allies Pondered Seizing Voting Machines With Armed Contractors—Report

Elections

June 4, 2022 2020 election, israel, sidney powell, trump

Archived 4 years ago from Newsweek
Trump Allies Pondered Seizing Voting Machines With Armed Contractors—Report

Figures on the fringe of former President Donald Trump‘s circle pushed for the use of armed contractors to seize voting machines as part of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a report published by the Los Angeles Times on Saturday. The report centers around a …

SubscribeStar Website Lets Extremists Profit From Hate

Conspiracy

June 3, 2022 2020 election, 5g, alex jones, nazi, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Southern Poverty Law Center
SubscribeStar Website Lets Extremists Profit From Hate

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones hosts his Infowars show from Austin, Texas, on Oct. 20, 2020. (Photo by TT News Agency/Alamy) Many of these content creators were previously banned from other subscription and content-hosting platforms because of their extremist content, disinformation or off-platform …

Analysis | The small-city voter fraud case that doesn’t prove Donald Trump right

Elections

June 3, 2022 2020 election, trump

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Analysis | The small-city voter fraud case that doesn’t prove Donald Trump right

Placeholder while article actions load A good way to tell when a news story is getting viral traction is when the ostensibly Congress-focused newspaper The Hill starts promoting it repeatedly. So, four times in the last 12 hours (as of writing), we note that The Hill has shared a story about a …

Fact Check-Re-examining how and why voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the U.S. ahead of the 2022 midterms

Elections

June 2, 2022 2020 election

Archived 4 years ago from Reuters
Fact Check-Re-examining how and why voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the U.S. ahead of the 2022 midterms

By Reuters Fact Check 13 Min Read Unfounded and debunked claims that the results of the U.S. 2020 general election, when Democrat Joe Biden defeated former U.S. president Donald Trump, saw significant voter fraud continue to circulate online as the country gears up for midterm elections scheduled …

The Birchers & the Trumpers | James Mann

QAnon

June 2, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, china, fauci, marjorie taylor greene, nazi

Archived 4 years ago from The New York Review of Books
The Birchers & the Trumpers | James Mann

During the insurrection at the US Capitol last year, the so-called QAnon Shaman, sporting a painted face and horned cap, sat on the Senate dais and offered a prayer. He thanked God “for allowing us to get rid of the Communists, the globalists, and the traitors within our government.”1 With those …

Washington ‘election integrity’ group and lawyer fined for meritless vote fraud lawsuit

Elections

June 2, 2022 2020 election

Archived 4 years ago from The Seattle Times
Washington ‘election integrity’ group and lawyer fined for meritless vote fraud lawsuit

A Washington state nonprofit group and its attorney have been fined more than $28,000 by the state Supreme Court for making legally meritless claims alleging widespread vote fraud. The Washington Election Integrity Coalition United was ordered to pay nearly $9,600, and its Sequim-based attorney, …

The GOP’s New Election Rule: Voter Fraud Is Only Real When We Lose to Democrats

Elections

June 1, 2022 2020 election, epstein, marjorie taylor greene

Archived 4 years ago from Vanity Fair
The GOP’s New Election Rule: Voter Fraud Is Only Real When We Lose to Democrats

One of the most hilarious parts of Donald Trump and company’s plot to overturn the 2020 election, insomuch as there’s anything funny about a stunted man-child’s fascist attempt to burn democracy to the ground, was the elected officials who insisted the presidential results were invalid due to fraud …

Conspiracy

June 1, 2022 2020 election, trump

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Another big Trump conspiracy theory meets its predictable demise

Placeholder while article actions load Among the many GOP efforts to counterprogram the Russia investigation with thinly constructed conspiracy theories, one of the most persistent ones was the so-called unmasking of Michael Flynn. The idea was that Obama administration officials deliberately …

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