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2020 Trump vs Biden election conspiracies
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has claimed, without offering evidence, that the election was overrun by fraud and his campaign filed a number of lawsuits attacking the voting process in several battleground states he went on to lose. State leaders and election officials –
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For days after the election, adherents to the QAnon conspiracy movement had been trying to get President Donald Trump’s attention with constant false claims about voter fraud connected to a company that makes voting machines. On Thursday, they celebrated. Trump
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The election is over, but the misinformation age is just beginning. While President Donald Trump, who has been a major disseminator of falsehoods, lost the election to Democratic challenger Joe Biden, the allure of conspiracy theories, misleading videos and digital
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I’m USA TODAY editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, and this is The Backstory, insights into our biggest stories of the week. If you’d like to get The Backstory in your inbox every week, sign up here. As President Donald Trump continues to contest the election
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By Kevin Roose Last weekend, as jubilant Democrats danced in the streets to celebrate the election of Joe Biden as the country’s 46th president, QAnon believers were on their computers trying to make sense of it all. “Biden will NEVER
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Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Pfizer’s announcement this week that it had a 90% effective vaccine against COVID-19 provided a glimpse of
Read MoreMinutes after the pro-Trump, right-wing outlet One America News Network (OAN) made a baseless claim about the election, President Donald Trump tweeted the allegation. Trump’s tweet alleged, based only on OAN’s baseless segment, that an election-software company had switched more
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Still, nearly a week later, several of these videos — including this manipulated clip of President-elect Biden and claims about votes cast in Sharpie — are still circulating on social media in an effort to seed doubts about the outcome
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By Reuters Staff 10 Min Read A video falsely claiming that COVID-19 was planned to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office has been circulating online. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS The five-minute clip was posted to Facebook on Nov. 11
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PHILADELPHIA — Election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said that there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President
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