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2020 Trump vs Biden election conspiracies
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 lies will endure. Experts say the …
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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 results, one of the most common questions I …
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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 be president,” wrote one QAnon believer, still firmly stuck in …
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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 the …
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 than one million …
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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 of the 2020 election. Here is a tour of four big offenders. The …
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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 but was deleted a day later. Captioned “The Four Year …
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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 Trump’s portrait of a fraudulent election. …
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For Trump supporters intent on finding it, proof of the president’s claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” is everywhere. For some, it’s in the videos: the one in which a Colorado man claiming to be a poll worker, dressed in a yellow vest, rips up Trump ballots (it was a TikTok prank) or the …
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In the aftermath of the 2020 election, President Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of litigation to review results in battleground states while also making unsubstantiated claims that the election was tainted by “tremendous corruption and fraud.” Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits in …
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