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Kentucky voting machine shifted Trump votes to Kamala Harris?!

Did a Kentucky voting machine shift votes for Donald Trump to Kamala Harris?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Kentucky voting machine shifted Trump votes to Kamala Harris!

People are posting a video as evidence that a Kentucky voting machine shifted votes for Donald Trump to Kamala Harris!

RT : Kentucky voting machine shifted Donald Trump’s votes to Kamala Harris

The video shows a voter trying to select Donald J. Trump, but his vote does not register even after he taps several times. Then after he taps again to vote for Donald Trump, the voting machine appears to select Kamala D. Harris instead.

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Truth : Kentucky voting machine did not shift Trump votes to Kamala Harris!

This is yet another example of fake news about voting, and the 2024 US elections, and here are the reasons why…

The video is genuine

Let me start by pointing out that the video is genuine, and was originally posted by @lisadixie20 on TikTok.

I tried the box and it would not work, then started recording & tried the tiny box & big. When I hit the big area, it voted for Harris

She also stated that she reported it to the election board, and they pulled the voting machine.

I took it all the way to the election board. After this went viral they pulled that machine and said the Attorney General just sent a rep here

However, I should point out that the machine is question isn’t a “voting machine”, but a Ballot Marking Device (BMD), which marks a paper ballot based on your selection on a digital display.

Laurel County confirmed the problem

Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown confirmed the issue, stating that the voting machine had been taken out of service, and they were waiting for the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office representative to take a look at it.

We’ve had an incident today with someone reporting one of the ballot marking devices malfunctioning. We checked it and couldn’t make it recreate the incident reported. The machine has been taken out of service and are waiting for the Attorney General’s Office representative to arrive. We had no complaints prior to or after the complaint. We have left the machine in full view and are awaiting further directions.

But not to worry – the voter in question casted her correct ballot.

The voter who posted the video did cast her ballot which she said was correct.

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Problem was likely due to pressing on the box border

According to former Kentucky Deputy Clerk and Elections Administrator James Young, the video does not depict any fraudulent activity, or vote flipping.

Rather, the problem occurred due to what can best be described as “user problem” – the voter was pressing on the border (instead of the middle) of the preferred candidate’s box, which can cause an adjacent box to be selected.

If you look closely, the voter is attempting to press the small check box located within the text box. Consistently, the voter gently presses their finger on the thin border, which at times can cause an adjacent text box to highlight instead of their intended choice. Had the voter pressed the center of the text box, this would not have occured.

AG Office confirmed it was due to pressing on the box border

According to the Laurel County Clerk, the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office checked the ballot marking device, and confirmed that James Young was right – the error can be replicated by touching the area in between the boxes.

The Attorney General’s office has been to the vote center to check the device that has been shown across social media today. In full disclosure, after several minutes of attempting to recreate the scenario, it did occur. This was accomplished by hitting some area in between the boxes. After that we tried for several minutes to do it again and could not.

Since it appeared to be a user-related issue, the ballot marking device was put back into service, and there have been no reports of similar issues since then.

The Attorney General’s office has been to the vote center to check the device that has been shown across social media today. In full disclosure, after several minutes of attempting to recreate the scenario, it did occur. This was accomplished by hitting some area in between the boxes.

As the Laurel County’s own video shows of the same BMD, there is no issue selecting the preferred candidate if you tap anywhere inside the box itself.

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Voters need to review and verify votes before printing ballot

Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown also explained how it would be quite impossible to fraudulently “flip” the vote using the BMD, as the voter has to verify his/her decision at the end, and confirm twice, before the ballot is printed.

Even after the ballot is printed, the voter can verify his/her choices again. At this time, it is still possible for the voter to discard the existing ballot, and request for another. Kentucky allows for up to two spoiled ballots per voter.

Only once the the voter is satisfied with the selections on the printed ballot, does he/she place the ballot into the scanner to verify that the vote has been counted.

So there are multiple safeguards against fraudulent manipulation of the votes using the Ballot Marking Device, including the physical paper ballot.

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Black Insurrectionist exposed as Jason Palmer again!

The infamous Black Insurrectionist just exposed himself AGAIN as a white guy called Jason Palmer! Here is what you need to know…

 

Black Insurrectionist Exposed As Jason Palmer!

The infamous Black Insurrectionist social media persona on X recently went viral with claims that Tim Walz had sex with a 14 year-old male student while he was a high school teacher at Alliance High School in Nebraska. Those claims was quickly eviscerated by many people who investigated the claims, which I covered here, here, here, and here.

That was followed quickly by a viral testimony video, in which a man who calls himself Matthew Metro claimed that he too had sex with Tim Walz while he was also a 14 year-old student, this time at Mankato West High School. That turned out to be a Russian disinformation campaign to help re-elect Donald Trump, and Black Insurrectionist mysteriously deleted his account on X.

Then on October 25, 2024, the Associated Press revealed that Black Insurrectionist isn’t even a black man, never mind a Black soldier (as his profile photo suggests). It turned out Black Insurrectionist is a 51 year-old white man called Jason G. Palmer, with a history of fraud.

The Black Insurrectionist account is linked directly to Jason G. Palmer, who has his own questionable backstory, starting with the fact that he isn’t Black, according to an Associated Press review of public records, open source data and interviews with a half-dozen people who interacted closely with Palmer over the past two decades.

The records and personal accounts offer a portrait of an individual who has repeatedly been accused of defrauding business partners and lenders, has struggled with drug addiction and whose home was raided by the FBI over a decade ago. He also owes more than $6.7 million in back taxes to the state of New York.

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Black Insurrectionist returned + exposed himself as Jason Palmer!

Just as mysteriously he disappeared, Black Insurrectionist reappeared on or around 29 October 2024, reposting a censored video which purportedly shows him as a black man, and claiming that Jason Palmer was really his “youtube operator” who helped him get his X account back after it was suspended.

He continued to double down on the fake story that Tim Walz was fired after having sex with a male student, while claiming not to know that the Matthew Metro video was created by Russian propagandists.

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In an angry retort to a comment, Black Insurrectionist posted a screenshot of his conversation with another account on X – MAGA ANTIFA (@Twesty33).

Unfortunately for him, his screenshot revealed more than just his conversation with MAGA ANTIFA. Two of the four tabs on his Microsoft Edge browser showed email accounts which appear to belong to Jason Palmer – (palmer50000@gmail.com, and what appears to be palmer50000@rocketmail.com).

As you can see – Black Insurrectionist appeared to have inadvertently exposed himself as Jason Palmer! Even if Palmer is indeed merely his friend, why would any friend give Black Insurrectionist access to not just one, but two, Palmer email accounts with thousands of personal emails???

It is far more plausible that Black Insurrectionist is none other than Jason Palmer himself. After all, Black Insurrectionist / Jason Palmer made the same mistake in March, showing his email address logged into the Georgia state online court system.

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You can also see that Black Insurrectionist captured that screenshot at 10:12 AM on 29 October 2024, and the temperature and weather at that time was 53°F and Mostly cloudy.

Windows 11 gets its weather forecasts from Microsoft Azure Map, which is powered by AccuWeather. Unfortunately, AccuWeather does not provide historical data publicly. But based on Weather Underground historical data of Rochester, New York, it was 54°F and Mostly Cloudy at 9:54 AM that day.

Why Rochester? That’s the location of the nearest weather station to the town of Webster, where Jason G. Palmer owns a home, as the Associated Press found out. That tells us that the screenshot was plausibly taken at Palmer’s home in Webster, and is yet another piece of evidence that Black Insurrectionist is likely Jason Palmer.

When James Rogers called him out on his mistake, Black Insurrectionist bizarrely claimed that he was posting screenshots sent to him by Jason Palmer, even though we can all see that he was logged into the Black Insurrectionist (@DocNetyoutube) account on X in that same screenshot!

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Mysteriously and bizarrely, after he was alerted to the mistakes seen in his screenshot, Black Insurrectionist deleted his account on X again! Yes, his account has disappeared off X yet again.

Will Black Insurrectionist return with more tales of shocking exposes? After his Tim Walz failures, who will he expose next? Kamala Harris? Diddy? Or will he expose himself again? We can only wait with bated breath…

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Are foreign tourists voting in 2024 US elections without voter ID?!

Are foreign tourists voting in the 2024 US elections because America does not require voter ID?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Foreign tourists are voting in 2024 US elections without voter ID!

People are claiming to be foreign tourists who voted in the 2024 US elections because America does not require voter ID!

Loopify : came on holiday to the US and they didn’t require voter ID so just voted on a bunch of ballots

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Truth : Foreign tourists are not voting in 2024 US elections without voter ID!

This is yet another example of fake news about the 2024 US elections, and here are the reasons why…

Photo was taken by US citizen

Let me start by confirming that the viral photo is genuine. However, it was not taken by any foreign tourist. The viral photo was taken and posted (archive) on 13 October 2024, by Ashley Muñoz – a US citizen.

She has repeatedly (here, here, here, here) called out people who used her photo to falsely claim that they voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 US elections as foreign tourists.

Photo was cropped to remove her finger

The viral photo that was used to falsely claim that foreign tourists are voting in the 2024 US elections was also cropped, to remove Ashley Muñoz’s finger with its white painted nail tip.

This was presumably done to make the posts more believable, as the edited photo was being posted by men.

Photo is being used to engagement farm and/or disrupt elections

While the photo is genuine, it is being used to farm for engagements on X (formerly known as Twitter), and/or disrupt the 2024 US elections.

This is partly due to the advertising revenue sharing program on X, and the general lack of consequences for posting fake news. X Premium accounts are now incentivised to generate controversy in order to increase impressions and engagement, hence the term – engagement farming.

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It is illegal for non-citizens to vote in US federal elections

I should point out there is no evidence that any foreign tourist is actually voting in the 2024 US elections. That’s because it is illegal for non-US citizens to vote in US federal elections.

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 prohibits non-citizens (which would include tourists and illegal immigrants) from voting in US federal elections. Those convicted of voting illegally would be subject to a fine and/or up to one year of imprisonment, and likely deportation.

Voter ID is required in many states

Voter ID laws vary by states, but at the federal level, the Help America Vote Act of 2022 requires a voter ID for all new voters in federal elections who registered by mail, but did not provide a driver’s licence number or the last four digits of a Social Security number that was matched against government records.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), many US states have voter ID laws:

  • Photo ID required (strict): Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
  • Photo ID requested (non-strict): Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas.
  • Non-photo ID required (strict): Arizona, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
  • Non-photo ID requested (non-strict): Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.
  • No ID required to vote at ballot box: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania (where a 2012 strict voter ID law was struck down by the state Supreme Court), Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

Therefore, claims that voter ID is not required to vote in the 2024 US elections is also false.

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You cannot vote without prior registration

To vote in US federal elections, you must first register to be on the voter rolls. Every state is required to use a common voter registration form, which requires people to conform that they are US citizens under the penalty of perjury.

In many states, the voter rolls are cross-referenced with citizenship and immigration records, death certificates, as well as postal records, to ensure that only people who are citizens, alive, and still living within the state, are eligible to vote.

At the polls, there’s a list of eligible voters, and if a non-citizen turns up, they’ll be turned away or told to cast a provisional ballot which will only be accepted if they can provide proof of citizenship.

– Professor Ronald Hayduk, voting rights expert at San Francisco State University (source)

In other words – it is practically impossible for foreign tourists to simply saunter into a polling station and vote in the 2024 US elections, because they would not be on the voter rolls!

Non-citizen voting is extremely rare

The combination of a severe penalty, and deportation, have made it extremely rare for non-citizens to even try. A study by the Brennan Center for Justice found that out of 23.5 million votes cast in 12 states during the 2016 election, only about 30 suspected incidents of non-citizen voting were referred for further investigation.

Even if all 30 cases of suspected non-citizen voting turned out to be true, that would only account for 0.00013% of all votes cast – just 1 in every 783,333 votes. Far too few to matter.

Even the conservative research group – the Heritage Foundation, found only 77 instances of non-citizens voting between 1999 and 2023. In short – the number of non-citizens voting in US federal elections is irrelevant.

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Exposed: Elon Musk once worked illegally in the United States!

Elon Musk, who famously rails against illegal immigrants, was just exposed for once working illegally in the United States! Here is what you need to know…

 

Exposed : Elon Musk once worked illegally in the United States!

As the world’s richest man, and the owner of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk has often spoken out against “open borders” and illegal immigrants making their way to the United States. That rhetoric increased after he publicly supported Donald Trump, not only donating millions to support his re-election, but also actively serving as his political surrogate.

That may be par for the course for the Republican Party and its Presidential candidate, but The Washington Post has just exposed the hypocrisy behind Elon Musk’s promotion of Donald Trump’s claims that “open borders” and undocumented immigrants are destroying America.

According to the excellent expose by Maria Sacchetti, Faiz Siddiqui, and Nick Miroff, at The Washington Post (WaPo), Elon Musk arrived at Palo Alto, California in 1995 on the pretext of studying at Stanford University. However, he never intended to do that at all.

In a May 2009 deposition, Musk admitted he never enrolled at Stanford. He said he called the department chair two days after the start of the semester, to say that he wasn’t going to attend classes. He then began working at Zip2 (originally called Global Link Information Network) in August or September 1995. That was illegal, according to immigration experts:

Upon not enrolling, Musk would have had to leave the country, according to legal experts and immigration laws at the time. He would not have been allowed to work.

Leaving school left Musk without a legal basis to remain in the United States, according to legal experts.

Foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company, even if they are not immediately getting paid, said Leon Fresco, a former Justice Department immigration litigator.

“If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” Fresco said.

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Exposed : Elon Musk admitted he worked illegally in the United States!

While US immigration records are generally not open to the public, the WaPo team obtained evidence from a California defamation lawsuit, in which Elon Musk admitted he was working illegally in the United States!

In a 2005 late night email to Tesla co-founders Martin Eberhard and JB Straubel, Elon Musk acknowledged that he did not have authorisation to be in the United States when he founded Zip2.

Actually, I didn’t really care much for the degree, but I had no money for a lab and no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issue. Then the internet came along, which seemed like a much surer bet.

When his investors found out, they “forced” the Musk brothers and an associate to obtain legal work status:

When the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures poured $3 million into Musk’s company in 1996, the funding agreement — a copy of which was obtained by The Post — stated that the Musk brothers and an associate had 45 days to obtain legal work status. Otherwise, the firm could reclaim its investment.

“Their immigration status was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S.,” said Derek Proudian, a Zip2 board member at the time who later became chief executive. Investors agreed, Proudian said: “We don’t want our founder being deported.”

Another large shareholder at the time, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said a minor problem drew additional attention to the Musk brothers’ unresolved immigration issues. Musk told co-workers he was in the country on a student visa, according to six former associates and Zip2 shareholders.

“We want to take care of this long before there’s anything that could screw up” the company’s path to an initial public offering, Proudian recalled.

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Kimbal Musk has repeatedly acknowledged working illegally in the United States, describing that when investors began offering them money, they found out that the Musk brothers had no legal permission to work in the United States!

Kimball even corrected his brother in a 2013 interview, when Elon suggested that their immigration status was “a grey area”:

Kimball : In fact, when they did fund us, they realized that we were illegal immigrants.

Elon : Well…

Kimball : Yes, we were.

Elon : I’d say it was a grey area.

Kimball : We were illegal immigrants.

WaPo obtained documents which showed Zip2 executives meeting with immigration attorney Jocelyn Lew on 21 February 1996, to discuss potential visa pathways for the Musk brothers and another Canadian co-founder. Lew allegedly advised the three men to downplay their leadership roles in Zip2, and scrub their resumes of US addresses which would show that they were already living and working in the United States.

Lew allegedly advised Musk to seek another student visa from the University of Pennsylvania, where he had earlier studied as an undergraduate; and later taught him how to obtain passport-sized photos to apply for the US visa lottery.

A person who joined Zip2’s human resources department in 1997 remembers processing work visas for the Musks and other family members under a category available to Canadians under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

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Exposed : Elon Musk hired his own brother to work illegally in the US!

As if his own lack of legal status was not bad enough, Elon Musk allegedly asked his brother, Kimball, to come from Canada to run his company in the United States.

That might have also contravened a 1986 federal law, which made it a crime to knowingly hire someone without work authorisation:

Musk said in 2003 and 2009 that he “convinced” Kimbal to come from Canada to work for his company.

Records filed with the California secretary of state show Elon Musk was the registered agent for Global Link Information Network when it incorporated in November 1995. On Feb. 26, 1996, the company listed Kimbal as president and CEO and Elon as secretary.

“I tried to get a visa, but there’s just no visa you can get to do a start-up,” Kimbal said in a 2021 interview. “I was definitely illegal.”

If that’s true, it could put the Musk brothers in further legal jeopardy. That may have been on Elon Musk’s mind during his interview with Tucker Carlson in October 2024:

Tucker Carlson : If Trump loses, you’re fucked, dude.

Elon Musk : If he loses, I’m fucked. How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be? Will I see my children? I don’t know.

 

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Are Trump + RFK Jr. planning to arrest Bill Gates + Fauci?!

Are Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. planning to arrest Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci on January 20?! Take a look at the shocking claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Trump + RFK Jr. plan to arrest Bill Gates + Fauci!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice, which suggested that Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. are planning to arrest Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci on January 20!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Trump and RFK Planning ‘Shock and Awe’ Arrests of Gates and Fauci on January 20

“Shock and awe” arrests of Anthony Fauci and senior government officials who perpetrated what Robert F. Kennedy Jr is calling “the crime of the century” are set to take place on January 20, just hours after the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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Truth : Trump + RFK Jr. are not planning to arrest Bill Gates + Fauci!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Trump + RFK Jr. have not threatened arrests of Bill Gates or Fauci

Let me start by pointing out that neither Donald Trump, nor Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have threatened to arrest Bill Gates and/or Dr. Anthony Fauci.

If they actually make such threats, it would have been reported widely by the mainstream media, and criticised by the healthcare and scientific community. Yet, there has been no report by any credible media outlet, not even outrage or glee on social media. That’s because it was made up.

The People’s Voice article itself did not provide any evidence to back up its claims. In fact, the word “arrests” was only mentioned in the title and lede, and nowhere else in the article!

There is no legal reason to arrest Bill Gates or Fauci

Even if Donald Trump, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wanted to arrest Bill Gates or Anthony Fauci, they wouldn’t have any legal pretext to actually have them arrested.

Neither Bill Gates, nor Dr. Anthony Fauci have committed any crime that would warrant arrests. If they didn’t commit any crime, Donald Trump cannot order their arrests even if he’s re-elected as President.

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The People’s Voice is known for fake news

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should think twice about sharing anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice.  Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Was Bucks County election worker seen destroying Trump votes?!

Was a Bucks County election worker seen destroying postal votes for Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

Updated @ 2024-10-26 : Added confirmation by ODNI, FBI and CISA
Originally posted @ 2024-10-25

 

Claim : Bucks County election worker seen destroying Trump votes!

Some people are sharing a video which purportedly shows a Bucks County election working destroying postal for Donald Trump, while leaving postal votes for Kamala Harris intact!

Concerned Citizen : Mail in ballots voting for Trump appear to be destroyed by this election registrar employee in Bucks County, Pennsylvania a major battleground State.

They were always going to cheat, amazing they are making it this obvious.

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Truth : Bucks County election worker did not destroy Trump votes!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news to influence the 2024 Elections, and here are the reasons why…

Bucks County GOP confirms video is fake

Let me start by quickly pointing out that the video does not show a Bucks County election worker destroying votes for Donald Trump, while preserving votes for Kamala Harris.

The Bucks County Republican Committee looked into the video, and have confirmed that it is fake.

We have seen the video circulating on the internet showing someone, allegedly in Bucks County, ripping up ballots with votes for President Donald Trump. We immediately worked with our attorneys, as well as attorneys with the Trump campaign to investigate this. The Bucks County Board of Elections has confirmed that the actions seen in this video did not occur.

Ballot return envelope looks different

If you compare the ballot return envelope from the video (left) with the real ballot return envelope on the right, you can see that they have different shades of green and finish.

The fake envelope is shiny, with a dark green stripe on the left. The real envelope has a matte finish, and a “Kelly green” colour. The fake envelopes also lack the voter’s return address.

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Election ballot envelope also looks different

The election ballot envelope also looks different, with a different shade of yellow from the real envelope. If you look carefully, you can also see the text offset for the alternating rows of “Official Election Ballot” is different from the real envelope.

The envelope in the viral video is clearly fake.

Mail-in ballots won’t be open until Election Day

The Bucks County GOP also pointed out that it is impossible for any election worker to open and destroy votes for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, because mail-in and absentee ballots won’t be opened and counted until election day on November 5, 2024.

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ODNI, FBI, CISA confirmed Russia was behind fake video

On 25 October 2024, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that the fake video of a Bucks County election worker destroying Trump votes was “manufactured and amplified” by “Russian actors”.

It is likely this fake video was created by the covert Russian disinformation team called Storm-1516 (also known as CopyCop), which is trying to influence the 2024 US elections to help Donald Trump.

Storm-1516 has been said to be responsible for recent fake videos about Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, which I fact checked recently:

US officials are also warning voters to expect Russia to create and release more fake content to undermine trust in the 2024 US elections.

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Russia created Tim Walz fake news to help Donald Trump!

The US intelligence community has identified Russia as responsible for recent Tim Walz fake news designed to help Donald Trump! Here is what you need to know!

 

Tim Walz Fake News : A Quick Primer!

In the run-up to the 2024 US elections, Vice Presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz was hit by accusations of sexual misconduct against underage male students at two schools he once taught.

Black Insurrectionist recently went viral with claims that Tim Walz had sex with a 14 year-old male student while he was a high school teacher at Alliance High School in Nebraska. Those claims was quickly eviscerated by many people who investigated the claims, which I covered here, here, here, and here.

That was followed quickly by a viral testimony video, in which a man who calls himself Matthew Metro claimed that he too had sex with Tim Walz while he was also a 14 year-old student, this time at Mankato West High School.

I also fact checked that viral Matthew Metro video, and showed how it appears to be a deepfake video, or merely uses an actor who superficially resembled the real Matthew Metro (like the fake Kamala Harris 2011 hit-and-run accident).

Both viral Tim Walz sex scandals were disproven pretty quickly, although many Trump supporters and right-wing personalities continue to push the fake claims and video, especially on X – the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Russia helped create Tim Walz fake news to help Donald Trump!

The Matthew Metro video was eerily similar to the fake video of a Black woman who claimed that she was knocked down by Kamala Harris in a 2011 hit-and-run accident. That effort was traced to a covert Russian disinformation team called Storm-1516 (also known as CopyCop), which was likely trying to influence the 2024 US elections.

So it came as no surprise when a senior US intelligence official finally confirmed on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, that Russian disinformation groups were responsible for creating and spreading fake news about Tim Walz.

The official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that the content (video) contained “several indicators of manipulation that are consistent with the influence efforts and tactics with Russian actors“.

Based on newly available intelligence, for example, the IC assesses that Russian influence actors manufactured and amplified inauthentic content claiming illegal activity committed by the Democratic vice-presidential candidate during his earlier career. The IC reviewed electronic media associated with this effort and in doing so revealed several indicators of manipulation that are consistent with the influence efforts and tactics Russian actors have used this cycle, including those highlighted in the Mid-September Election Security Update.

This appears to be yet more evidence that Russia was trying to influence the 2024 US elections in favour of former President Donald Trump, whom US intelligence assesses is the Kremlin’s preferred choice.

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In its Mid-September Election Security Update, the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) identified Russia as the most prolific foreign actor in reading AI content to influence the 2024 US elections in favour of former President Donald Trump.

Of the top three actors we are tracking, Russia has generated the most AI content related to the election and has done so across all four mediums—text, images, audio, and video—though the degree to which this content has been released and spread online varies. These items include AI-generated content of and about prominent U.S. figures, and are consistent with Russia’s broader efforts to boost the former President’s candidacy and denigrate the Vice President and the Democratic Party, including through conspiratorial narratives.

Even though such Russian-manufactured fake news were quickly debunked, and did not turn out to be the October surprise former President Donald Trump was possibly hoping for, it is more than likely that Russia will continue to manufacture and/or spread more fake news about Tim Walz and Kamala Harris into the final two weeks of the 2024 US elections, and even in the post-election period, when they can sow doubts about the American democratic process.

Since the publication of that assessment, the IC is increasingly confident that Russian actors are considering—and in some cases implementing—a broad range of influence efforts timed with the election. Some of these are aimed at inciting violence and calling into question the validity of democracy as a political system, regardless of who wins. Others are aimed at amplifying false information and conspiracies—that may exacerbate post-election tensions in the United States.

The DNI also expects other foreign actors like Iran and China to conduct influence operations during the pre-and post-election periods.

 

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Did McDonald’s confirm Kamala Harris never worked there?!

Did McDonald’s just confirm that Kamala Harris never worked at any of its restaurants?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : McDonald’s confirms Kamala Harris never worked there!

Former President Donald Trump has claimed that McDonald’s has confirmed that Vice President Kamala Harris never worked at any of its restaurants!

Donald Trump at Feasterville-Trevose McDonald’s:

I think it’s inappropriate when somebody puts down all over the place that she worked at McDonald’s. It was a big part of her resume [that] she worked at McDonald’s, how tough the job it was.

She specifically worked at the French fryer, would have made the French fries. She talked about the heat, it was so tough.

She never worked at McDonald’s. McDonald’s just confirmed that again, by the way. She never worked at McDonald’s. In other words, she’s Lyin’ Kamala.

Donald Trump on Truth Social: We have checked with McDonald’s, and they say, definitively, that there is no record of Lyin’ Kamala Harris ever having worked there. In other words, she never worked there, and has lied about this “job” for years.

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Truth : McDonald’s did not confirm Kamala Harris never worked there!

This appears to be an example of fake news about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

Donald Trump never provided any evidence

Despite claiming that McDonald’s has confirmed that Kamala Harris never worked at any of its restaurants, former President Donald Trump has not provided any evidence.

He has, so far, only repeated those claims, without offering any evidence, like a statement from McDonald’s, for example.

McDonald’s said it did not have all job records for the early ’80s

After Donald Trump held a photo op session and press conference at the Feasterville-Trevose McDonald’s outlet on 20 October 2024, McDonald’s USA issued an internal statement to clarify that it was non-partisan, and made a similar offer to the Harris-Walz campaign.

McDonald’s USA also clarified that it no longer has records for all jobs dating back to the 1980s.

Though we are not a political brand, we’ve been proud to hear former President Trump’s love for McDonald’s and Vice President Harris’s fond memories working under the Arches. While we and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early ’80s, what makes “1 in 8” so powerful is the shared experience so many Americans have had.

While some people claim that this is “evidence” that Kamala Harris did not work at McDonald’s, that’s not true. It only confirmed that it is highly unlikely for any corporation or franchisee to still have job records going back 40+ years!

To be clear – McDonald’s never said whether Kamala Harris worked for any of its restaurants or not. It only stated that it (and its franchisees) simply do not have all the records going back to the early 1980s, and thus cannot confirm the story one way or another.

McDonald’s also took pain to refer to “1 in 8” – that 1-in-8 Americans have worked at McDonald’s at some point in their lifetime. In other words – it is plausible Kamala Harris worked a summer job at McDonald’s like many other Americans.

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An old friend recalled Kamala Harris working at McDonald’s

While the Harris campaign did not make any of her friends or family members available for interviews about her work experience at McDonald’s, The New York Times independently confirmed that summer stint at the Golden Arches (archive) with a friend of Kamala Harris from her teenage years.

Wanda Kagan, a close friend of Ms. Harris’s when they attended high school together in Montreal, said she recalled Ms. Harris having worked at McDonald’s around that time.

Answering questions by email, Ms. Kagan said that Ms. Harris’s mother, who died in 2009, had told Ms. Kagan about the summer job years ago. Ms. Kagan said she herself had also worked at one of the fast-food chain’s many franchises in those years.

“That’s what us regular folks did,” Ms. Kagan wrote. Still, she indicated that it had not been a frequent topic of conversation for Ms. Harris. “We didn’t talk much about our McDonald’s days back then,” she said.

And why should it be a frequent topic of conversation? It was a low-paying job that many young people in North America did on their summers off. It was not like she snag an internship with a Senator or a Supreme Court justice!

But there you have it – confirmation from at least one friend from that period that Kamala Harris did work a summer job at McDonald’s.

It was not a big part of her resume

While Kamala Harris mentioned her stint at McDonald’s several times, she never put it on her resume as Donald Trump claimed.

In fact, many people specifically pointed out that Kamala Harris did not list her summer job at McDonald’s on her resume when she applied for the position of a law clerk in the Alameda County district attorney’s office in October 1987.

Of course, most people would not have listed a summer job four years earlier frying potatoes and working the cash register at McDonald’s in their resume for a job at the Alameda County district attorney’s office. But Trump supporters have made this resume a lynchpin of their claims that she never worked at McDonald’s.

Unfortunately, they have accidentally proven Donald Trump’s wrong that working at McDonald’s was a big part of Kamala Harris’ resume.

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Did Kamala Harris mock Christians for praising Jesus?!

Did Kamala Harris mock Christians and ask them to go to a Trump rally for praising Jesus?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Kamala Harris mocked Christians for praising Jesus!

People are claiming or suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris mocked Christians, and asked them to go to a Trump rally, after they shouted “Jesus is Lord” at her rally!

Ann Vandersteel : BREAKING: KAMALA COMES OUT AS ANTICHRIST! Someone at Kamala’s PRO-DEATH rally called out “Jesus is Lord.”

Her reply: “Oh you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.”

In other words, she thinks America has been overtaken by baby-killing Satanists. Excuse my French, but FCK THIS GODLESS HEATHEN.

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Truth : Kamala Harris did not mock Christians for praising Jesus!

Let’s take a look at the new Kamala Harris race hoax claim, and find out why it doesn’t really confirm anything of the sort…

Kamala Harris is a Christian

Let me just start by quickly pointing out that Kamala Harris is a Christian – to be specific, a Baptist of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco. So it would be rather silly to claim that Kamala Harris mocked Christians like herself.

Kamala Harris jibed at hecklers who said she lied

Kamala Harris was speaking at a campaign rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin on 17 August 2024, when she referred to Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade.

She was then interrupted by hecklers who shouted, “You lie!” and “That’s a lie!“. That’s when she made the quip, “Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally,” and suggested they attended the wrong rally.

You can watch the unedited video for yourself, and here’s a transcript of that segment:

Kamala Harris: Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court, with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did as he intended.

Hecklers: You lie! That’s a lie! Liar!

Kamala Harris: Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street. Come on.

The audience erupted in cheers when she jibed at the hecklers and waved them off. At no point in time, can anyone be heard shouting “Jesus is Lord” or “Christ is King” in that video clip.

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Kamala Harris was not responding to heckler praising Jesus

There are other video clips being shared which showed at least one heckler shouting “Christ is King” and “Jesus is Lord“.

However, this heckler appears to be at the far end of the hall, and far from the stage on which Kamala Harris was speaking. That could explain why he was not heard in the video of Kamala Harris responding to audible heckles of “That’s a lie” and/or “You lie!

In addition, if you listen carefully, you will note that his shouts was followed immediately by Kamala Harris saying, “…wrong rally“. That tells us that the man was shouting “Jesus is Lord” while Kamala Harris was responding to the slightly earlier heckles of “You lie!

While this and other video clips from the back of the hall show that there was definitely one man who was shouting “Christ is King” and “Jesus is Lord“, his shouts were not audible in the earlier video clip from where Kamala Harris was standing on stage.

Together with the timing of her reply in this video clip, it seems obvious that Kamala Harris never heard the man shouting, and her response was to people who were shouting slightly earlier that she lied about Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade.

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Did Univision expose Kamala Harris using a teleprompter?!

Did Univision accidentally expose Kamala Harris using a teleprompter at its town hall?! Take a look at the viral video, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Univision exposed Kamala Harris using a teleprompter!

Right after Univision hosted a town hall for Kamala Harris on Thursday, 10 October 2024, some people claimed or suggested that the Vice President was caught using a teleprompter!

Rudy W. Giuliani : 🚨 CAUGHT RED-HANDED 🚨

WATCH: Univision accidentally shows the teleprompter Kamala Harris is reading from, word-for-word, during her “town hall” on the network.

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Truth : Univision did not show Kamala Harris using a teleprompter!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

Kamala Harris did not use a teleprompter

First, let me just point out that Kamala Harris did not use a teleprompter during her Univision town hall.

The teleprompter seen in the video was used by the Univision moderator, Enrique Acevedo, and it displayed his introduction (in Spanish), as confirmed by Enrique Acevedo himself:

The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.

Some sharp-eyed commentators have pointed out that in the HD version of the video, part of the teleprompter text can be seen – “Y ahora vamos con…

The teleprompter was later switched to a timer, which you can see at around 16:26 of the full Univsion Town Hall livestream video. It then displayed the moderator’s outro text at the end.

The Univision town hall producer, Daniel Cornell, also confirmed that the teleprompter only displayed text in Spanish for its moderator, Enrique Acevedo:

That’s not true. The teleprompter that displays a text written in Spanish was a support element for the town hall moderator. I can tell you this with first-hand knowledge because I was in charge of the television program.

This is the same setup that will be used next week when Univision holds a similar town hall for Donald Trump.

Ultimately, this is yet another attempt by MAGA Trump supporters to create controversy where none exists, because they have nothing better to take down Kamala Harris’ campaign.

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Will FEMA seize property if you don’t repay $750 assistance?!

Will FEMA seize your property if you fail to repay the $750 assistance that is really a loan?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : FEMA will seize your property if you don’t repay $750 assistance!

Some people are claiming or suggesting that the $750 Serious Needs Assistance is really a loan, and FEMA will seize your property if you fail to repay it!

Philip Anderson : 🚨BREAKING: Hurricane victims are now realizing that the $750 from FEMA that Kamala Harris is offering them is actually a loan, not real relief. And that if they don’t pay it back the feds can seize their property. These people don’t even have property anymore because of the hurricane.

Some have also posted videos, many purportedly claiming that a FEMA inspector is warning people against taking the $750 from FEMA, because their property may be seized!

Jack Straw : Shocking… a scam, $750 is a trap.

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Truth : FEMA will not seize your property if you don’t repay $750 assistance!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created about FEMA, and here are the reasons why…

$750 FEMA assistance does not need to be repaid

Let me start by pointing out that the $750 FEMA assistance is called the Serious Needs Assistance. The $750 is a one-time payment per household that is given by FEMA, and does not need to be repaid.

FEMA issues this payment to disaster survivors who apply within the first 30 days after a disaster is declared in the area, and is meant as initial and immediate assistance to help survivors cover “essential items like food, water, baby formula, breastfeeding supplies, medication and other emergency supplies“.

To be clear – FEMA will not be asking you to repay the $750 one-time immediate assistance payment, and obviously, it is not going to seize your property!

FEMA refuted claims $750 needs to be repaid

FEMA had earlier addressed the misinformation on 30 September 2024:

Myth: FEMA grant money is a loan that I will need to pay back.

Fact: FEMA disaster assistance are grants which do not need to be repaid. 

But when the claims went viral, FEMA spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg refuted those claims, stating clearly that Hurricane Helene victims do not need to repay the $750 assistance.

This is not true. We do not ask for this money back.

So you have to wonder – what kind of person would mislead disaster victims so they won’t accept this free $750 assistance that they desperately need???

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FEMA immediate assistance was $500 under Trump

This one-time payment by FEMA isn’t new. In fact, the Serious Needs Assistance was also issued under the Trump Administration, albeit at a lower sum of $500 per household.

After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, FEMA issued one-time payments of $500 to cover “critical needs” like diapers, infant formula, food and fuel (source | source).

If the same FEMA assistance was a payment that does not need to be repaid under the Trump Administration, why would anyone suggest that it is now a loan under the Biden Administration that must be repaid within a year???

You only need to repay FEMA for an advance on insurance settlement

Some people are sharing a screenshot (example), as “evidence” that you need to repay the $750. That’s simply not true.

That is actually a screenshot of a FEMA article (archive), which explained that FEMA grants “do not have to be paid back” in most cases.

The portion highlighted as “evidence” actually refers to an advance on insurance money that some disaster victims may request from FEMA if their insurance claims are delayed. Obviously, such an advance will need to be repaid when the victims receive their insurance settlement!

Does help from FEMA have to be paid back?

No. In most cases, FEMA grants do not have to be paid back. If you have insurance that covers your temporary housing costs, but ask FEMA to advance you some money to help you pay for those costs while your insurance is delayed, you will need to pay that money back to FEMA after your receive your insurance settlement.

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Did Kamala supporter puncture tires running over Trump sign?!

Did a Kamala Harris supporter puncture his truck’s tires after running over a sign supporting Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Kamala supporter punctures tires running over Trump sign!

Some people are posting a video which apparently shows a Kamala Harris supporter called Chad running over a TrumpVance sign on the roadside, only to find that it was spiked with nails which punctured his truck’s tires!

Ian Miles Cheong : Kamala supporter gets a dose of FAFO. Don’t mess with people’s property.

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Truth : Kamala supporter did not puncture tires running over Trump sign!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

Video was cropped

Let me start by pointing out that the video posted on X (formerly Twitter) was edited – cropped so that the TikTok video creator’s name is truncated. Why would anyone do that?

The original video was posted by @phillyoffensive23 (now removed), and reposted (archive) on Sunday, 6 October 2024 by jmofundir2 on Instagram.

Oddly enough, the Instagram video did not have the jmofundir2 Instagram overlay, which is visible on the version circulating on X. In any case, the version circulating on X appears to have been edited from the version jmofundir2 posted on Instagram.

It was a satirical skit, a joke video

The video was actually a satirical skit – a joke video, created and posted by @phillyoffensive23 on TikTok.

The original video appears to have been removed or made private, but you can see that @phillyoffensive23 regularly posts such satirical or joke videos on his TikTok channel.

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Kamala Harris forgot to plug in her earphones in staged photo?!

Did Kamala Harris forget to plug in her earphones in a staged photo?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Kamala Harris forgot to plug in her earphones in staged photo!

On 29 September 2024, Kamala Harris’ office released a photo of the Vice President being briefed by FEMA on Hurricane Helene, which the statement:

I was just briefed by @FEMA_Deanne Criswell on the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene. We also discussed our Administration’s continued actions to support emergency response and recovery.

I also spoke with @NC_Governor Cooper about the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina.

Our Administration will continue to stay in constant contact with state and local officials to ensure communities have the support and resources they need.

Doug and my thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones and those whose homes, businesses, and communities were damaged or destroyed during this disaster.

Some people quickly claimed or suggested that she staged / faked the photo, and forgot to plug in her earphones!

Donald J. Trump : Another FAKE and STAGED photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work! Biden and Harris abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. They sacrificed Americans to an Open Border, and now, they have left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South. Under this Administration, Americans always come last, because we have “leaders” who have no idea how to lead!

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Truth : Kamala Harris did not forget to plug in her earphones in staged photo!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

Apple removed iPhone audio port in 2016

First, let me just point out that Apple removed the audio port from the iPhone, with the release of iPhone 7 in September 2016 – 8 years ago.

The phone on the table appears to have an action button, and is either an iPhone 15 or an iPhone 16 – both of which lack any audio port to plug in a pair of wired earphones.

If Kamala Harris was using that iPhone to speak to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, she would either use a USB Type C to 3.5 mm dongle to connect to her wired earphones, or used it in speaker mode.

There was no wire connected to the phone

Some fact checkers have countered, claiming that the white earphone cable was connected to the phone. That’s not possible, as the iPhone 15/16 does not have an audio port – as I pointed out above.

The white “cable” is actually reflected light off the aluminium frame of the table, which has an elevated lip to prevent items from sliding off.

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Kamala Harris is likely using a different phone

Kamala Harris is likely using a second, different phone, because she has been observed using wired earphones with a black rectangular phone (example), and the earphones connected to its bottom left.

That rules out any iPhone (even with a USB dongle). It would almost certainly be an Android smartphone with a 3.5 mm audio port on the lower left side, likely the Samsung Galaxy A52, or the Nokia G60. It is also possible, even likely, that she’s using a custom-designed phone for secure communications.

In any case, if she was listening to Deanne Criswell on her wired earphones, the phone they are connected to is not visible in that photo, and is most likely on her lap, or perhaps even in her pocket.

Papers on table were likely blurred or edited

Kamala Harris was also mocked for apparently writing nothing on a blank piece of paper. However, it is likely that the photo was edited to blur or remove all visible text on the papers.

If you look closely at the photo, you will notice that the paper in the foreground and even the paper napkin was blurred out. This was likely done for PR / security reasons.

After all, who can forget the staged October 2020 photo op at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in which then President Donald Trump was caught signing his name on a piece of blank paper with a marker pen.

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This is just political fake news

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Viral video shows Kamala Harris adjusting Bluetooth earphones?!

Was Kamala Harris caught on a viral video adjusting the Bluetooth earphones she used during her debate with Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Viral video shows Kamala Harris adjusting Bluetooth earphones!

Some people are posting a video which claims to prove that Vice President Kamala Harris was secretly using Bluetooth wireless earphones to cheat during her debate with Donald Trump!

Poppi Starr : BUSTED…THESE are the same earrings she wore at the DEBATE

TaraBull : Nothing to see here folks 👀

Many of the videos have a text overlay which claimed:

BUSTED!! Those same earings [sic] she wore at the debate! Repost this and expose this cheating tramp! I KNEW IT!!

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Truth : Video does not show Kamala Harris adjusting Bluetooth earphones!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

Kamala Harris was wearing an in-ear monitor

While Kamala Harris appears to be wearing a similar pair of pearl earrings she wore at her debate with Donald Trump, she was adjusting an in-ear monitor (IEM).

In-ear monitors are commonly worn by TV presenters and their guests, which allow them to receive vocal instructions and information from the show’s producer.

Video was edited to crop out in-ear monitor receiver

In-ear monitors do not use Bluetooth wireless technology, and linked using a wire to a receiver, which connects wirelessly using UHF or VHF radio to a transmitter off-stage.

If you watch the original video below, you can see that Kamala Harris actually picked up her in-ear monitor’s receiver to adjust the volume. You can see that the receiver is quite large.

The viral video, however, deceptively cropped out the receiver – presumably to make you think that she was adjusting her Bluetooth earphones. Why would anyone do that???

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Video was recorded in 2019

I should also point out that this video was not recorded recently. It was actually recorded in November 2019 – almost 5 years ago!

MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart recorded that video about 1 minute before the Politics Nation show with Rev. Al Sharpton started, and posted it on X (formerly Twitter) on 26 November 2019.

So this video has nothing to do with the 2024 Kamala Harris – Donald Trump presidential debate.

Kamala Harris was not wearing NOVA H1 audio earrings

This viral video is designed to perpetuate the false claims that Kamala Harris wore the NOVA H1 audio earrings during her debate with Donald Trump. That’s not true, and has been conclusively debunked.

The truth is – Kamala Harris appeared to be wearing South Sea Pearl Earrings (no longer available online) from Tiffany & Co. To be clear – these are just a pair of gold-plated earrings with pearl, without any embedded Bluetooth earphones.

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Kamala Harris does not wear Bluetooth earphones

Kamala Harris is known to dislike Bluetooth earphones, and intentionally choses to go old-school with wired earphones – for security reasons. As Politico reported in 2021, “Kamala Harris is Bluetooth-phobic“.

KAMALA HARRIS is never missing her AirPods. That’s because she’s wary of them.

While a growing number of consumers are going wireless, the vice president is sticking with the classics. She has long felt that Bluetooth headphones are a security risk. As a result, Harris insists on using wired headphones, three former campaign aides told West Wing Playbook.

In short – it’s just silly to keep claiming that Kamala Harris is secretly wearing Bluetooth earphones to receive information during her debate with Donald Trump.

This is just political fake news

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$150K Donald Trump death bounty: What you need to know!

Is there a $150K death bounty to assassinate Donald Trump before the 2024 Presidential election?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : There is a $150K death bounty on Donald Trump!

Some people are claiming or suggesting that there is now a $150,000 death bounty to encourage the assassination of Donald Trump before the 2024 Presidential election.

Alex Jones : Massive Assassination News Breaking Now! There Is $150,000 Death Bounty on Trump’s Head. Plus 45 has survived other assassination attempts that have been kept from the public….This is a global exclusive!

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Truth : There is no $150K death bounty on Donald Trump!

This is yet another example of fake news about Donald Trump, and here are the reasons why…

Trump death bounty was only seen after Ryan Routh’s arrest

On 15 September 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida; after he allegedly pointed (but didn’t fire) a rifle through the fence line towards former President Donald Trump, who was 300-500 yards (180-450 m) away.

After news of the assassination attempt broke, a friend of Ryan Routh opened a box he dropped off at his home months earlier, and found “ammunition, a metal pipe, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters.

One of the letters appeared to be a farewell letter Routh addressed to “The World“, in the event he failed in his assassination attempt.

Dear World,

This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.

As you can see, Ryan Routh only offered the bounty on Donald Trump in the event he failed to assassinate the former President. However, that letter was not seen or read by anyone until his friend opened his box on learning of his arrest.

I should also point out that this revelation isn’t a “global exclusive” by anyone on social media. It was released by US prosecutors, and reported widely by media outlets all over the world

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Ryan Routh remains in custody without bail

It is important to note that the letter was not discovered until after Ryan Routh was arrested, and he remains in custody without bail.

The bounty is effectively dead while Ryan Routh remains in custody – there is no way for any wannabe assassin to collect on the money even if they manage to kill Donald Trump, so why bother trying?

That is likely the reason why the Department of Justice released the letter to support its motion to keep Ryan Routh in custody, instead of allowing him to be released into his sister’s care on $250,000 bail.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe agreed, and Ryan Routh remains in custody without bail pending trial. This effectively kills the death bounty on Donald Trump, even if anyone actually believes it’s a genuine offer.

No evidence Ryan Routh has $150,000!

Finally, there is no evidence Ryan Routh actually has $150,000 to pay anyone who assassinates Donald Trump! In fact, Routh is known to be a struggling roofing contractor with a history of writing bad cheques, and not paying his taxes on time.

Ryan Routh has also been repeatedly sued by people who accused him of not paying his bills, and was convicted in March 2010 of multiple counts of possession of stolen goods. Would you trust someone like that to pay you after finishing a job?

Ryan Routh’s lack of wealth has led to suggestions that he is being financed by some nefarious group or person(s). However, no one has offered any evidence that Ryan Routh has $150,000 in cash or in his bank to finance any death bounty on Donald Trump, much less evidence that his money was provided by any nefarious group or person(s).

The lack of credibility in Ryan Routh’s bounty offer is likely why prosecutors publicly released his handwritten letter. While conspiracists may accept such claims without thinking twice, any potential assassin would want to see evidence Routh’s bounty is genuine before they would even consider taking up the job.

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Did police discover but cover up dirty bomb at Trump rally?!

Did Nassau County police discover but cover up a dirty bomb found at a Trump rally in Long Island?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Police discovered but covered up dirty bomb at Trump rally!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claimed or suggested that the police discovered but covered up a dirty bomb found at a Trump rally in Long Island!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Police Discover Dirty Bomb at New York Trump Rally – Cover Up Exposed

An explosive device was found at Donald Trump’s Long Island rally yesterday by a bomb-detecting dog, as the global elite’s plan to detonate a dirty bomb at a Trump event inches closer to reality.

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Truth : Police did not discover and cover up dirty bomb at Trump rally!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

There was no dirty bomb at the Trump rally

Let me start by pointing out that the police did not locate any dirty bomb – a bomb designed to disperse radioactive material. In fact, there was no report of any dirty bomb being discovered or reported at any Trump rally.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence that a dirty bomb was discovered or planned for the Trump rally on Long Island. Neither did it provide any evidence the police covered up a dirty bomb.

There was only an unverified report of an explosive device

In fact, this controversy appears to be based on an unverified report (archive) by James Lalino on 18 September 2024 that “sources in the Nassau County Police Department” told him that its K9 unit found an explosive device in one of the vehicles, whose driver ran off into the woods:

Sources in the Nassau County Police Department just told me that “the perimeter was breached and a blue barrel was removed” from the area surrounding tonight’s Trump rally site.

Source said “During K9, doing their checks, they found an explosive device in one of the vehicles and that driver ended up running into the woods. No one saw if he had anything on him, they just saw him take off running. A lot of cars are now parking, they’re lining up on Hempstead Turnpike, just parking on the grass. Even over at Eisenhower Park, they’re just parking over there.”

To be clear – there never was any report of a dirty bomb being found at the Trump rally. Even the unverified report only referred to “an explosive device”, not a dirty bomb.

Frankly, if a dirty bomb was ever discovered anywhere in the United States, it would have been major news reported widely all over the world. Yet, no legitimate news outlet has mentioned a dirty bomb being found, because it never happened – it was made up.

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Nassau Police + Secret Service called explosive device report “false”

Soon after the unverified report went viral on X (where else?), the Nassau County Police called itFALSE“, in capitals to boot!

Reports that an explosive device was found at the Nassau Coliseum are FALSE. #NassauCountyPD

A Secret Service spokesperson also confirmed that reports of “explosives” being found in a car at the Trump rally were false.

It was a false report by someone with a dog

Later that same day, Nassau County Commissioner of Police Patrick Ryder explained a person who “may have been training a bomb detection dog” made the false bomb report:

Reports of explosives being found at the site are unfounded. There is a person who is being questioned who may have been training a bomb detection dog near the site.

The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police.

In other words – someone with a dog reported finding a bomb or explosives in a car, and it turned out to be a false report. Consequently, that person was detained by the police for questioning.

The photo was digitally-altered

The People’s Voice article and associated video used a cover image which shows a blue-coloured object on the road, presumably to suggest that it was the dirty bomb.

But why on Earth would the dirty bomb be digitally pixellated as if it was a naked person? And why would people be standing around the dirty bomb???

The truth is – that blue object was digitally added to a screenshot from a video clip (example) from the Trump rally in Long Island, and then pixellated so you cannot actually see what it is.

As you can see from the screenshot I took below, there was no blue-coloured object on the road in front of the truck. Why would anyone digitally add and pixelate a blue-coloured object???

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The People’s Voice is known for fake news

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should think twice about sharing anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice.  Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Microsoft: Russia behind fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run story!

Microsoft has confirmed that Russia is responsible for the fake story about Kamala Harris paralysing a 13 year-old girl in a hit-and-run accident! Here is what you need to know…

 

Fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run story : A quick primer!

Earlier this month, a video went viral on social media, showing a young Black woman on a wheelchair claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris left her paralysed in a 2011 hit-and-run accident in San Francisco.

The alleged victim, who was alternatively called Alisha Brown / Alicia Brown, said that she “cannot remain silent anymore“, and lamented that her childhood “ended too soon“.

The video by KBSF-TV showed the shattered windshield of the alleged vehicle used by Kamala Harris in that hit-and-run accident, as well as X-ray images of the alleged victim.

As I covered in my fact check article, the story was fabricated. Kamala Harris was not involved in a hit-and-run accident in 2011 in San Francisco, that left a girl paralysed.

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Microsoft: Russia behind fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run story!

On Tuesday, 17 September 2024, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center issued a report identifying Russia as being responsible for the fake story about Kamala Harris paralysing a 13 year-old girl in a hit-and-run accident!

According to its latest threat assessment report, Microsoft said that the fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run story was created by a covert Russian disinformation team known as Storm-1516 (also known as CopyCop).

While some people have suggested that the young Black woman was AI-generated, Microsoft said that Storm-1516 paid an actor to play the part of the alleged victim. The fake story was disseminated through a fake website for a non-existent San Francisco news outlet called KBSF-TV, that was created just a week earlier.

Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center said in an ABC News interview that Microsoft has been tracking the use of AI by nation states for more than a year and while foreign actors tried AI initially, many have gone back to basics as they’ve realized AI was “probably more time-consuming and not more effective.”

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The Microsoft report also highlighted a second video created and spread by Storm-1516 / CopyCop, which showed two Black men beating up a bloodied white woman at a Donald Trump rally.

Microsoft explained how Russian intelligence actors struggled initially to adapt to President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, but have now started serious attacks to discredit Kamala Harris and stoke controversy around her campaign.

A newer Russian group called Storm-1679 has allegedly pivoted from producing content about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to publishing false videos designed to discredit Vice President Kamala Harris. One of the videos featured a fake New York City billboard showing false claims about her policies.

Microsoft warned that Russian actors will continue use cyber proxies and hacktivist groups to spread allegedly hacked or leaked materials to undermine confidence in the US Presidential election outcome.

When asked about Russia’s motivation behind these fake videos, Watts said the Russia-aligned groups Microsoft tracks may not necessarily support particular candidates, but they are motivated to undermine anyone who “is supporting Ukraine in their policy.”

Vice President Kamala Harris has publicly vowed to support Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion if elected as President. On the other hand, Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war, only saying that “I want the war to stop“.

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This Microsoft report comes after the Biden Administration seized Kremlin-run websites and charged two Russian state media employees in an alleged scheme to secretly fund a network of right-wing American influencers to influence the 2024 Presidential election.

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Did Taylor Swift lose $125M after Kamala Harris endorsement?!

Did Taylor Swift lose $125 million in brand deals, after endorsing Kamala Harris against Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Taylor Swift lost $125M after endorsing Kamala Harris!

Right after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris against Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential election, people started claiming or suggesting that Taylor Swift lost $125 million in brand deals as a result of her decision.

SpaceX Fanclub : Taylor Swift Loses Brand Deals Worth $125 Million After The Big Endorsement

Pamala Trago : Good she needs to be exposed for the demonic influence she is 💯

Sam Ghannoum : Good, you ungrateful singer and movie stars 🔥
Taylor Swift unexpectedly lost $125 million brand contract after a massive advertising campaign. 😂

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Truth : Taylor Swift did not lose $125M after endorsing Kamala Harris!

This is yet another example of fake news circulating about Taylor Swift and Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

No evidence Taylor Swift lost brand deals over Kamala Harris endorsement

First, let me just point out that there is no evidence Taylor Swift lost any brand deal over her endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 US Presidential election.

If Taylor Swift actually lost any major brand deal, never mind $125 million worth of brand deals, it would have been widely reported not just by the mainstream media, but also celebrity blogs. It would also have sparked outrage by Swifties – Taylor Swift fans for the uninitiated.

Yet, there has been no credible reporting, not even by hyper-competitive celebrity blogs. Even Taylor Swift fans have not fallen for this hoax. That’s because it never happened.

It was just satire

These claims appear to be based on an Esspots article (archive). Here is an excerpt:

Taylor Swift Loses Brand Deals Worth $125 Million After The Big Endorsement

In what can only be described as a seismic shift in the world of pop culture and product placements, Taylor Swift, America’s sweetheart-turned-political commentator, has reportedly lost brand deals worth a staggering $125 million. The reason? Her latest “big endorsement,” which seemed to hit all the wrong notes with some of her biggest sponsors.

It may not be readily apparent, but if you look carefully, you will see that the Esspots article is labelled as Satire. At the very bottom of the article, it is also stated “NOTE: This is SATIRE, Not Real.

The graphic used by SpaceX Fanclub (which appears to be linked to Esspots) has a Rated Satire overlay on the upper left corner, and its Facebook post (archive) has a disclaimer – This is Satire.

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Esspots said Taylor Swift endorsed a vegan cryptocurrency

While the title and lede appears to suggest that Taylor Swift was “cancelled” by big brands over her endorsement of Kamala Harris, the Esspots article (archive) actually said that it was over her endorsement of a “vegan cryptocurrency”!

Here is an excerpt of the relevant section:

Was it a presidential candidate? A new movement? A cause everyone can get behind? No. In a twist that no one saw coming, Swift endorsed…a vegan cryptocurrency backed by none other than Elon Musk’s second cousin.

Her exact words? “This crypto is the future, and honestly, we need to save the planet—and our portfolios.”

It appears that many people did not bother to read the Esspots article beyond the first 2-3 paragraphs, and jumped to the conclusion Taylor Swift lost $125 million in brand deals over her endorsement of Kamala Harris.

The truth is – the satirical article by Esspots claimed that Taylor Swift just endorsed a vegan cryptocurrency. Needless to say, there is no such thing as vegan cryptocurrency.

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Esspots is a satire website

Esspots identify itself as a satire website. If you look at their About Us page, it’s stated clearly that it is dedicated to bringing you “fake news and absurdity”:

Welcome to the US page of Esspots (A Subsidiary of SpaceXMania.com specializing in Satire and Parody News), your one-stop destination for satirical news and commentary about the United States of America. Our team of writers and editors is dedicated to bringing you the latest and greatest in fake news and absurdity, all with a healthy dose of humor and satire.

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Kamala Harris caught using audio earrings at Trump debate?!

Was Kamala Harris caught using audio earrings during the ABC News debate with Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Kamala Harris caught using audio earrings at Trump debate!

Right after the Harris-Trump debate on ABC News ended, some people started claiming or suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris was secretly using the NOVA H1 audio earrings to cheat!

The Trump Train : BREAKING🚨 It appears Kamala Harris was being coached by using earphones embedded in her earrings during the ABC presidential debate against President Trump.

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Truth : Kamala Harris was not using audio earrings at Trump debate!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…

Kamala Harris was not wearing NOVA H1 audio earrings

Many people are claiming that Kamala Harris wore the NOVA H1 audio earrings during her debate with Donald Trump. That’s not true.

The NOVA H1 audio earrings are pearl earrings that are clipped onto the earlobes. Each earring has an integrated microphone inside the pearl that projects sound into the ear canal.

As you can see from the photos below, the NOVA H1 audio earrings have a thick and solid clip which connects the large stem (containing the electronics and battery) to the microphone inside the pearl.

While the NOVA H1 sports a large pearl, it uses a completely different design than the earrings Kamala Harris wore during her debate with Donald Trump.

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Kamala Harris wore Tiffany double hinged pearl earrings

The earrings Kamala Harris wore to her ABC News debate with Donald Trump has a large pearl too, but lacks a thick clip. In fact, her earrings appear to have a double hinge design – the pearl sits on a hinged loop of metal.

If you look at the zoomed-in photo that we provided below, the hinge appears to be hanging freely below her earlobe. The earring Kamala Harris wore does not appear to be clipped onto her earlobe, and is likely attached by a post.

Kamala Harris appears to be wearing the South Sea Pearl Earrings (no longer available online) from Tiffany & Co. It has a similar design to Double Pearl Hinged Earrings, but features 9-10 mm South Sea Pearls and is 18K gold-plated instead of silver-plated.

What is certain is that Kamala Harris was not wearing the NOVA H1 audio earrings.

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Kamala Harris wore the same earrings earlier

Kamala Harris is known to favour pearls, and is often seen wearing pearl earrings. In fact, she was seen wearing the same earrings at earlier events. For example:

  • At NCAA championship teams celebration on the White House South Lawn on July 22, 2024 : Photo
  • At the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on September 11, 2023 : Photo
  • At the NBC News “Meet the Press” interview on September 11, 2022 : Photo

In short – Kamala Harris was just wearing a pair of her existing pearl earrings. It wasn’t even a new pair of earrings.

This is just political fake news

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Is Trump planning to destroy UN + arrest COVID-19 criminals?!

Is the Trump team planning to destroy the UN and arrest COVID-19 pandemic criminals?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Trump is planning to destroy UN + arrest COVID-19 criminals!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims or suggests that the Trump team is planning to destroy the United Nations, and arrest globalist criminals for their role in the COVID-19 pandemic!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Insider: Trump To ‘Shatter UN Into a Thousand Pieces’ and Arrest COVID Plandemic Criminals

The Trump team is determined to shatter the United Nations into a thousand pieces and arrest globalist criminals in agencies including the World Heath Organization who are understood to be key players in the COVID plandemic.

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Truth : Trump is not planning to destroy UN + arrest COVID-19 criminals!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Trump team did not announce plans to destroy UN

Let me start by simply pointing out that the Trump campaign did not announce any plan to destroy the United Nations.

If the Trump campaign ever mentioned anything about destroying the UN, it would have been reported widely, and criticised by the Democrats as well as people all over the world.

Of course, none of that ever happened. There was no legitimate media reporting, no outrage on social media, no condemnation by the Democrats. Nothing. Zilch. That’s because it was all made up.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any actual evidence the Trump campaign is planning to destroy the UN if he wins the 2024 Presidential election.

Fact #2 : Trump team did not announce plans to arrest COVID-19 criminals

I should also point out that the Trump campaign did not announce any plan to arrest anyone for the COVID-19 “plandemic” – a long debunked conspiracy theory.

If the Trump campaign ever mentioned anything about arresting people for the being involved in a non-existent “plandemic”, it would have been reported widely, and mocked by the Democrats as well as people all over the world.

Of course, none of that ever happened. There was no legitimate media reporting, no mockery on social media, no ridicule by the Democrats. Nothing. Zilch. That’s because it was all made up.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any actual evidence the Trump campaign is planning to arrest people for being involved in a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

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Fact #3 : The People’s Voice is known for fake news

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should think twice about sharing anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice.  Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Is Trump’s team planning to arrest elites for chemtrail crimes?!

Is the Trump transition team planning to arrest elites for chemtrail crimes?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Trump team is planning to arrest elites for chemtrail crimes!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims or suggests that the Trump transition team is planning to arrest elites for chemtrail crimes!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Trump Insider: Arrest Warrants Ready for Elites Spraying ‘Genocidal’ Chemtrails

In a groundbreaking development, the Trump transition team are preparing to authorize officials to arrest elite figures allegedly involved in the covert operation of spraying chemtrails to manipulate weather patterns, control populations, and disperse harmful toxins, including aluminium and barium.

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Truth : Trump team is not planning to arrest elites for chemtrail crimes!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Trump campaign did not announce plans for chemtrail crimes

Let me start by simply pointing out that the Trump campaign did not announce any plans to arrest anyone for “chemtrail crimes”. That’s probably because there isn’t any actual law against chemtrails in the first place!

If the Trump campaign ever mentioned anything about arresting people for chemtrail crimes, it would have been reported widely, and mocked by scientists and people all over the world.

Of course, none of that ever happened. There was no legitimate media reporting, no mockery or howls of laughter on social media, nothing. Zilch. That’s because it was all made up.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any actual evidence the Trump campaign is preparing to arrest people for “chemtrail crimes”.

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Chemtrails do not exist

The term “chemtrails” refers to the belief that condensation trails (contrails) left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually chemical or biological agents being deliberately spread for various nefarious purposes.

The truth is – chemtrails do not exist. The white trails you see behind airplanes flying at high altitudes are contrails – trails of water vapour from aircraft engines that condenses into ice crystals in the extremely cold air.

In fact, these contrails have been seen since aircraft were able to fly at high altitudes, and were prominent during World War 2, when contrails were often seen during high-altitude bombing missions.

On top of that, it would require many tens of thousands of people in the aviation industry to work in perfect unison to cover up an industry-wide conspiracy to spray people with chemicals or biological agents like mpox. In truth – such a conspiracy would have been exposed within hours, if not days.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence that chemtrails exist, much less are an actual crime that people can get arrested for, never mind evidence that the Trump campaign plans to arrest people for “chemtrail crimes”.

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The People’s Voice is known for fake news

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should think twice about sharing anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice.  Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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X insiders deny DDOS attack during Musk-Trump interview!

X insiders have refuted Elon Musk who claimed that his disastrous interview of Donald Trump suffered a massive DDOS attack!

 

Elon Musk : Massive DDOS attack of Trump interview!

On August 11, 2024, X owner Elon Musk announced that he would be conducting an interview of… oh, sorry… a “live conversation” with former President Donald Trump.

Scheduled for 8 PM ET on Monday, August 12, the Musk-Trump “conversation” was hosted on X Spaces (where else?), which should both provide a “safe space” for Donald Trump, and an opportunity for Elon Musk to demonstrate that his “streamlining” of X has not hurt its ability to host major events.

However, the Musk-Trump interview had a disastrous start with a crash. X users who tried to tune in were instead greeted by an error message – “Unable to fetch Space” or “This Space is not available“. Those who somehow managed to get in, only heard lo-fi techno music.

18 minutes later, Elon Musk claimed that X appeared to be under a massive DDOS attack, and X was working to shut it down:

There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.

Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.

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Several minutes later, Musk claimed that X tested Spaces with 8 million concurrent users, implying that it has to be some kind of nefarious action by someone outside of X.

We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today

When someone suggested that the DDOS attack might have been initiated by the Democrats, Elon Musk agreed.

mark pinkus : Its Dems fighting to ‘save’ Democracy from two massive disrupters!

Elon Musk : Yeah

After the lo-fi techno music finally stopped some 30 minutes later, listeners only heard some rustling from Trump’s microphone, and then silence for another 10-12 minutes, before the interview (sorry, conversation!) finally started.

In the end, the Musk-Trump interview / conversation only hosted some 1 million concurrent listeners on X Spaces – far short of the 8 million Elon Musk claimed Twitter tested earlier.

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X insiders deny DDOS attack during Musk-Trump interview!

Oddly, Elon Musk seemed to be hedging his claim with the word “appears”, before offering the 8 million concurrent test as “evidence”. Why would he do that? It’s so weird…

As the owner of X, Musk would clearly know whether X was under “a massive DDOS attack” or not. He wouldn’t need to beat about the bush. He would have network engineers monitoring the traffic, who would be able to spot any suspicious spike in traffic and determine if it was a massive DDOS attack or not.

It now appears that Elon Musk may not have been entirely truthful about the technical issues that beset his disastrous X Spaces conversation with Donald Trump.

At least two X insiders have refuted Elon Musk’s claim. The first confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack on X. Another X staff said that there was a “99 percent” chance Elon Musk was lying about a DDOS attack.

That makes sense, as outside of that Musk-Trump interview, the rest of X (including other X Spaces) was working normally. A massive DDOS attack would have made it impossible for X to function normally. You cannot just target a DDOS attack to hit one specific livestream, and leave the rest of X running normally.

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To be clear – there is no evidence of a massive DDOS attack, and there is also no evidence that the Democrats were involved or responsible for the technical failures that marred the disastrous Musk-Trump “live conversation” on X Spaces.

This isn’t the first time X has suffered such failures. Ron DeSantis suffered a similarly embarrassing failure to launch (nod to you SpaceX fans!) when he launched his ill-fated presidential campaign on X Spaces in May 2023.

At that time, Donald Trump mocked the disastrous launch, posting on Truth Social “Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER!” It’s been said that karma is a bitch.

This failure also highlights the drastic changes that Elon Musk made when he purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022. He not renamed it X, he gutted about 80% of its staff, leaving just skeleton crews in key areas like site reliability. Karma strikes again?

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Did the US hide logo of new Chinese crane with US flag?!

Did the Americans try to hide the logo on a new Chinese crane with the US flag, so that people won’t know that they were made in China?

Take a look at the new viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Did the US hide logo of new Chinese crane with US flag?

People are sharing a video showing the US flag falling from a Chinese crane, revealing the ZPMC logo, together with this message :

During opening ceremony of new gantry cranes in USA. A sudden gust of wind blew away the board covering Chinese brand name. You can see the board is black on one side and has American flag on the other.

What an embarrassment trying to hide the Chinese made cranes.

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Truth : The US did not hide logo of new Chinese crane with US flag!

The video is genuine, but taken out of context. Here are the facts…

Fact #1 : Video was recorded on 29 March 2013

The viral message was intentionally vague on when it happened, suggesting that it was new. The truth is – the video was recorded many years ago – on 29 March 2013 in Miami, Florida.

At that time, the President of the United States was Barack Obama, not Joe Biden or Donald Trump.

Fact #2 : It was not an opening ceremony of any kind

The viral message said that this incident happened during an “opening ceremony of new gantry cranes” in the United States. That is completely FALSE.

The video was recorded at the Port of Miami Tunnel project in Miami, Florida – just before President Obama spoke about his infrastructure plan.

It was related to the Port of Miami tunnel project on Dodge Island, which would connect the port to the interstate highway system, and had nothing to do with the gantry cranes.

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Fact #3 : The logo was covered for optics

As President Obama was going to speak about shipping “products made in America” through ports like the Port of Miami, so it would have been awkward optics to have Chinese logos in the background.

Therefore, members of the White House advance team decided to cover up the ZPMC logo with a US flag. Not only did the ZPMC have Chinese characters, it was also a Chinese state-owned company. Awkward indeed!

Fact #4 : They left the ZPMC logo visible

After wind blew the American flag off the logo, a member of the White House team went onto the gantry to retrieve the flag. But instead of putting it back over the logo, he shifted the American flag to the side of the gantry.

Ultimately, the ZPMC logo was left visible during President Obama’s speech, as this picture shows.

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Fact #5 : The Chinese gantry cranes were not new

The gantry cranes seen in the picture appear to be ZPMC Super Post-Panamax (SPP) cranes that were delivered in January 2005.

They were more than 8 years old when President Obama spoke at the Port of Miami in 2013, and more than 16.5 years old when this fake news started circulating in 2021.

So the claim that the Americans were trying to pass off new Chinese cranes as American-made cranes is nothing but fake news.

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Did Harris-Walz campaign use fake AI crowd photos?!

Did the Harris-Walz campaign use fake crowd photos created using generative AI technology?! Take a look at the viral video, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Harris-Walz campaign used fake AI crowd photos!

Some people are sharing photos, which they claim prove that the Harris-Walz campaign got caught using fake crowd photos created using generative AI technology!

Donald Trump : Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she “A.l.’d” it, and showed a massive “crowd” of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the “crowd” looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake “crowds” at her speeches. This is the way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING – And they’re even worse at the Ballot Box. She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!

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Truth : Harris-Walz campaign did not use fake AI crowd photos!

This is yet another example of fake news about the 2024 US Presidential election, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Airport photo is genuine and was not created by AI

Many people, including former President Donald Trump, falsely claimed that the Harris-Walz campaign faked photos of the crowd that greeted Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

The photo is genuine, and is one of the many taken and posted by people who attended the event, which was attended by thousands of people, as well as prominent politicians. It was also live streamed by dozens of news channel.

In addition, Shayan Sardarizadeh of BBC Verify checked the metadata of the original photo, and confirmed that it was taken using an iPhone 12 Pro Max on 7 August at 18:28 local time.

While it is possible that some photos might have been digitally manipulated to make them appear fake, or created by generative AI software, the size of the crowd is indisputable. According to the local news outlet MLive, “about about 15,000 people filled the hangar, the crowd spilling out onto the tarmac.”

Fact #2 : Telephoto lens make the crowd appear closer than it really is

People are pointing to the reflection of Air Force Two’s fuselage and engine cowling, which appear to show the hangar but no sign of any people. That does not mean the photo was created by AI.

For one thing – the photo appears to have been taken using a telephoto lens, which makes the crowd appear much closer to Air Force Two than it really is.

As this video below shows, the crowd was actually located close to the hangar, and a considerable distance away from Air Force Two. Hence, they would not be so obviously seen in the reflection of Air Force Two’s fuselage or engine cowling.

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Fact #3 : Reflections are “compressed” on curved surfaces

The second reason why you don’t see the large crowds visibly reflected on Air Force Two’s fuselage and engine cowling is because they are curved surfaces, on which reflections would appear compressed.

It may seem silly but let me just point out that the fuselage and engine cowling of Air Force Two are cylindrical. Like funhouse mirrors, shiny cylindrical surfaces distort reflections, and will not reflect an image like a flat mirror.

If you look closely, you can see how the hangar appears compressed vertically – it appears to be very long, but squashed flat, like someone sat on it. You can actually see the crowd in that photo – it just appears as a dark line because its reflection was compressed vertically by the curved surface.

This video, which was created by someone else (sorry, I don’t know who, but will update this article with the correct credit when I identify the creator) recreated the scene using Blender, to show and explain why the crowd’s reflection can be seen in the photo – they just appear compressed.

Fact #4 : Air Force Two no longer has tail number

Some conspiracists pointed out that the aircraft in the photo lacks a tail number, with some pointing out that Air Force Two should have the tail number 80002.

While generative AI can and do create images with distorted or even missing text, that is no the case with the viral photo of Air Force Two at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

The truth is – the US Air Force started removing tail numbers and other individually-identifying markings from its C-32A and C-32B executive and personnel transport jets for operational security reasons.

In fact, when JD Vance – the Republican candidate for Vice President recently walked up to Air Force Two in Wisconsin on 7 August 2024, photos and videos clearly show that it lacked any tail number.

Fact #5 : AI stadium crowd photo was not created by Harris-Walz campaign

The viral stadium photo, which purportedly shows supporters of the Harris-Walz campaign, was created using generative AI software. There are many obvious signs of generative AI in that viral photo, as many people have pointed out.

However, it was not created or shared by the Harris-Walz campaign. It was created and posted (archive) by a parody account on X (formerly Twitter) called Dr. Literaleigh A Pheline 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@Sarcasmcat24).

When American YouTuber and political commentator, Blair White, shared that photo, @Sarcasmcat24 pointed out to her that it was AI-generated:

That’s a photo that I generated with AI

Zoom in a bit, you’ll see that the faces aren’t even well developed.

Yeah, I run a parody account, glad you enjoyed the post! 😜

White has since deleted her post, but many continue to post this fake photo (on the right) and falsely claim that it was posted or created by the Harris-Walz campaign. That’s simply not true.

Fact #6 : This is just political fake news

Ultimately, this is yet another example of political fake news surrounding the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election. Here are some other examples I fact checked recently:

As the 2024 US Presidential election draws close, you can expect more of such fake news to appear, so be wary and skeptical!

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Is Algerian boxer Imane Khelif a transgender woman?!

Is Algerian boxer Imane Khelif a transgender woman who was really born male?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Imane Khelif is a transgender woman!

Some people are claiming or suggesting that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is a transgender woman who was really born male!

J.K. Rowling : Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024ated was discovered, and then a rocket attack was launched from the drone.

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Truth : Imane Khelif was born female, and is not transgender!

This is yet another example of fake news circulating on social media, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Imane Khelif is not transgender

Let me start by simply pointing out that Imane Khelif is a woman, and is not transgender. Neither does she identify as intersex.

Khelif reportedly has a variation in her sex traits, also known as differences of sexual development (DSDs). People with DSDs have genitalia, reproductive organs, and sexual characteristics that are “mismatched” with their genetics.

For example, someone with DSD may have male XY chromosomes, but have female characteristics, and even female genitals. On the other hand, a person with DSD may be born with female XX chromosomes and a penis.

Regardless of whether Imane Khelif should be considered male or female for the purpose of any competition, she is most definitely not a transgender woman, which is defined as someone who was born male, but transitions into a woman later in life. That is certainly not the case with Khelif.

As Mark Adams, chief spokesperson for the IOC said on Friday, August 2, “This is not a transgender case. There has been some confusion that somehow it’s a man fighting a woman. This is just not the case, scientifically.

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Fact #2 : Imane Khelif was born female

Mark Adams also pointed out that Imane Khelif was born female, was registered as a female, and lived her life as a female:

The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport.

The question you have to ask yourself is, are these athletes women? The answer is yes, according to their eligibility, their passport, their history.

In fact, her childhood photos show that Imane Khelif was brought up as female.

I should also point out that none of those who accused her of being born male (and not a female with differences of sexual development), ever provided any evidence.

Fact #3 : Imane Khelif was tested + competed as a woman for many years

This controversy erupted during the 2024 Paris Olympics when Italy’s Angela Carini stopped fighting against Imane Khelif after 46 seconds on Thursday, 1 August 2024. Carini told reporters after the match that, “a punch hurt too much, and so I said enough“.

That ignited a firestorm of accusations of bias, as well as misinformation, over Khelif’s eligibility to compete as a woman, together with Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, because they were both disqualified from the International Boxing Association’s 2023 world championships because they allegedly have XY chromosomes.

However, both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting were tested and have competed as women for many years, as the International Olympic Committee pointed out in its statement. To date, the IBA has not released the 2022 or 2023 test results.

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Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, who was also suddenly disqualified in 2023 IBA World Championships

Fact #4 : Imane Khelif won silver in 2022 IBA World Championships

In fact, Khelif actually won the silver medal in the 2022 IBA World Championships, after undergoing tests and meeting its eligibility requirements

On top of that, both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting were allowed to compete in the 2023 IBA World Championships, after the IBA chose not to disqualify them in 2022 based on the same results (source: IBA minutes).

Mr. Yerolimpos confirmed that similar testing was conducted by a different independent laboratory with the same athletes at the previous edition of the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in 2022. However, the results were received only upon conclusion of the event, hence the athletes were not disqualified back then.

Even though the IBA had apparently decided that the 2022 test results should disqualify Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, they were both allowed to participate in the 2023 world championships. They were not disqualified until Khelif defeated Azalia Amineva – a previous unbeaten Russian boxer.

According to IBA’s own minutes, the decision to disqualify Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting was initially taken solely by the IBA Secretary General and CEO, with the board only ratifying it after the fact.

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Fact #5 : Angela Carini apologised to Imane Khelif

Many people have claimed or suggested that Angela Carini was upset at fighting a biological male, because she ignored Imane Khelif’s attempt to shake her hand at the end of the match. That’s not true, as she explained.

Carini told Italian media on Friday, 2 August, that she would like to apologise to Imane Khelif for not shaking her hand after the match, and give her a hug. She also said the controversy made her sad.

All the controversy made me sad and I’m sorry for my opponent too. It’s nothing to do with her. She was here like me to fight. It wasn’t on purpose, and I apologise to her and everyone.

I was angry because my Olympics had just gone up in smoke but I’ve nothing against Imane Khelif. On the contrary, if I saw her again, I’d give her a hug.

If Angela Carini herself is not upset at losing to Imane Khelif, why should anyone else be upset “on her behalf”?

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Donald Trump Crypto Giveaway Scam Alert!

Please watch out for the Donald Trump crypto giveaway scam, and warn your family and friends! Here is what you need to know…

 

Donald Trump Crypto Giveaway : What Is It?

People are sharing posts (archive) which claim that Donald Trump has announced a crypto giveaway of Bitcoin and Ethereum coins (Ether).

The Republican Party supports Donald Trump in his decision to make cryptocurrency one of the key assets of the United States. We aim to expedite the integration process into society and therefore announce a campaign.

The video shows former President Donald Trump speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 conference, calling on people to “click the link” to claim their free cryptocurrencies.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m announcing a huge initiative to integrate cryptocurrencies into our society. This will accelerate the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and increase their distribution among American citizens.

We are giving away Bitcoins and Ethereums to you. Click the link and claim yours. Vote for me, let’s make American great again.

The link lead to a website called RepublicanCrypto.com (screenshot | screenshot) that boldly claims that Donald Trump is giving away $100 million worth of cryptocurrencies!

Trump Biggest Crypto Giveaway Of $100,000,000

You can visit the website, but do not follow the instructions there, because it’s a scam!

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Why Donald Trump Crypto Giveaway Is A Scam!

Here are the reasons why the Donald Trump crypto giveaway is a just another scam to cheat you of your hard-earned money!

Fact #1 : Donald Trump Crypto Giveaway Video Is Fake!

First, let me just point out that the video of Donald Trump saying that he is “giving away Bitcoins and Ethereums” is a deepfake video with a fake voice over. If you look carefully, you can see that Trump’s mouth movements do not sync well with what he’s saying.

In any case, Donald Trump never made those comments in his speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference. This is most definitely a fake video, with a fake voice over.

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Fact #2 : Donald Trump Is Not Giving Away Cryptocurrencies!

I should also point out that Donald Trump is not giving away any cryptocurrency. If Trump ever actually gives away money, it would have been reported widely. Obviously, that did not happen, because it’s all made up!

Think about it for a second – Donald Trump is a businessman with a long history of stiffing his suppliers, contractors and/or employees. Why would he give YOU any of his money???

In fact, Trump has been asking people for money. He’s a billionaire because he constantly looks for ways to make more money. It would be silly of him to give $100 million away just to “speed up” cryptocurrency adoption.

Fact #3 : That Is A Scam Website

The RepublicanCrypto.com website is a scam website which falsely claims to be a cryptocurrency giveaway by Donald Trump.

For one thing – the domain is brand new, and was only registered on 28 July 2024. The domain also does not belong to the Republican Party, or Donald Trump. In fact, their ownership is being hidden – which is common with scam websites. On top of that, the contact email is Russian – ek1991@internet.ru.

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Fact #4 : This Is A Double-Up Crypto Scam!

This appears to be a double-up crypto scam, similar to the Elon Musk Bitcoin + Ethereum giveaway scam, relying on your greed to cheat you of your cryptocurrency.

Instead of giving you cryptocurrencies like in a real giveaway, it asks you to send your own cryptocurrencies to receive double the amount in return!

Send your BTC to the address for X2 back

Send your ETH to the address for X2 back

Send your DOGE to the address for X2 back

Send your USDT to the address for X2 back

That’s utter nonsense. Whatever BTC / ETH / DOGE / USDT cryptocurrency you send to those addresses will be lost for good. You will never get them back, never mind get double the amount!

To further tempt you into giving even more bitcoin or ether, the scammers warn that you can only participate once. That is complete bullshit. They are just preying on your greed and fear of missing out to trick you into sending more cryptocurrency.

Please do NOT send any cryptocurrency to those addresses. It is a SCAM!

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Elon Musk shares fake, digitally-altered Kamala Harris video!

Take a look at the viral Kamala Harris video Elon Musk just shared on X, and find out why it’s a fake, digitally-altered video!

 

Elon Musk shares fake, digitally-altered Kamala Harris video!

Elon Musk just shared a video of Kamala Harris (archive) to million of his fans on X (formerly Twitter), with the comment:

This is amazing 😂

The video, which garnered over 7.5 million views as of 11 PM, July 26, is obviously fake and digitally altered. However, Elon Musk did not label it as such.

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Why Kamala Harris video Elon Musk shared is fake + digitally-altered!

This is yet another example of misinformation being propagated on X (formerly Twitter), and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 :  It Was A Parody Video

Let me start by pointing out that the Kamala Harris video was a campaign ad parody that was created by the Mr Reagan account on X (archive).

Mr Reagan clearly labelled it as a PARODY, although he conveniently did not include a parody label in the video itself, so when people share his video, it may be misinterpreted as genuine.

Unfortunately, Elon Musk did not explicitly mention that the Kamala Harris video was just a parody, when he shared the video with millions of his fans. So it is more than likely that some of his fans might actually believe it’s real. Silly, I know, but we are talking about Elon Musk fans…

To be fair, X does not require users to label parody videos. However, its Civic Integrity Policy explicitly forbids “posting or sharing content that may suppress participation… or lead to offline violence during an election.”

Fact #2 :  The Audio Was Digitally Altered

While the parody video uses genuine video clips of Vice President Kamala Harris, its audio was fake, and definitely digitally altered, likely created using an AI voice generator.

I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for President because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate. Thanks, Joe!

To be clear – Kamala Harris did not say any of that. The audio is completely fake.

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Fact #3 :  Video Only Featured One Kamala Harris Gaffe

It appears that Mr Reagan has to use a fake audio of Kamala Harris because she does not make that many gaffes. In fact, the entire video only featured one gaffe in which Kamala Harris mistakenly touted the U.S. “alliance with the Republic of North Korea“.

In contrast, her rival for the Presidency of the United States – Donald Trump has made so many gaffes, it would be simple to make videos mocking them without faking his voice.

In fact, conservative lawyer and Trump critic George Conway did just that, releasing a campaign ad video highlighting Donald Trump’s best gaffes. The video, which is half as long as the Mr Reagan video, showcases the Trump’s numerous gaffes and obvious cognitive problems in his speeches. Unlike the Mr Reagan video, there was no editing of Trump’s voice.

As Conway explained, Donald Trump “wanted to make this election all about mental fitness“, so the video will show that “even before he began showing age-related cognitive decline, Trump had a long history of doing and saying bizarre things“.

Conway continued, “He was never right in the head. And as he’s gotten older, he’s only gotten worse. Especially now that he’s the only old guy in the race, it’s more important than ever for the public to focus on Trump’s lack of mental fitness when they make their decision this November“.

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Fact #4 : This Is Fake News About 2024 Presidential Election

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Did Joe Biden quit over failed plot to assassinate Donald Trump?!

Did President Joe Biden end his re-election campaign after failing to assassinate Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Joe Biden Quit Over Failed Plot To Assassinate Donald Trump!

Some people are claiming that US President Joe Biden dropped out of his re-election campaign because his administration failed in its attempt to assassinate Donald Trump!

TheTexasOne : Joe Biden stepping down tells me 100% that they tried to assassinate Trump because nothing else was working!

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Truth : Joe Biden Did Not Quit Over Failed Plot To Assassinate Donald Trump!

This is yet another example of fake news about Joe Biden, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Biden Administration Did Not Plot Assassination Attempt

Let me start by pointing that that the Biden Administration was not involved in the failed assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

If that was even a possibility, it would be triggered a Congressional investigation into the plot, and it would have triggered the Joe Biden’s resignation and the possible criminal prosecution of those involved.

Yet, none of that happened, because there is simply no evidence to even suggest such a possibility. Not even the MAGA wing of the Republican Party has dared to claim that the Biden Administration is somehow involved in the failed assassination of Donald Trump.

Needless to say, none of those promoting these spurious claims ever offered any evidence to back them up. That isn’t surprising at all because based on the evidence collected so far, the shooter – 20 year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, appears to have acted alone as a lone wolf, with no known political motives.

Fact #2 : Joe Biden Quit Re-Election After Weeks Of Turmoil

Claims that Joe Biden only quit his re-election campaign after his administration failed to assassinate Donald Trump is nonsensical, are easily disproven by the timeline.

Right after Biden’s dismal debate against Trump in Atlanta on June 27, several Democratic officials and political advisors started calling on Biden to end his re-election campaign. Those calls increased in urgency after Biden held a news conference at the end of the NATO summit on July 11, in which he made more gaffes.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump occurred more than 2 weeks – 16 days to be precise, after Democratic Party officials and members of Congress started calling for Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign. So his decision to quit was not triggered by the failed attempt at assassinating Donald Trump, but by his own poor debate performance against Trump.

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Fact #3 : Biden Likely Has Legal Power To Assassinate Trump

Frankly speaking, there is no need for President Joe Biden to use an unstable, lone wolf shooter, to assassinate Donald Trump. If Biden really wanted to assassinate Donald Trump, he likely has the legal power to do so.

With all of the US government’s resources at his disposal, he would be able to rely on its best sharpshooters, or he could simply have Donald Trump poisoned by the Secret Service, and then shot and garrotted for good measure. And he would arguably be legally protected against criminal prosecution.

Thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. United States, a sitting President can potentially order the assassination of a political rival with complete immunity. In her dissent, which was signed by two colleagues, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out that:

In every use of official power, the president is now a king above. [Let’s say he] orders the Navy’s Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival? Immune.

Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.

In other words, if Biden truly needed Trump dead to win re-election, he would have ordered the US government to try, and try again, until they succeeded. He wouldn’t need to end his re-election campaign.

Just in case you think Biden is too senile to know he now has the power to assassinate his political rivals, he actually pointed this out on July 5, 2024.

Fact #4 : This Is Fake News About 2024 Presidential Election

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Was FBI assistant director caught on Trump assassination video?!

Was FBI Assistant Director Janeen DiGuiseppi caught on video giving the shooter instructions on how to assassinate Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : FBI Assistant Director Caught On Trump Assassination Video!

Some people are sharing photos and screenshots of a woman whom they claim or suggest is FBI Assistant Director Janeen DiGuiseppi giving the shooter instructions on how to assassinate Donald Trump!

Dom Lucre : 🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: The woman in this video behind Donald Trump, where many viewers accused her of ‘giving the shooter instructions’ has allegedly been identified as FBI assistant director Janeen Diguiseppi, this is still a developing story, 

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Truth : FBI Assistant Director Was Not In Trump Assassination Video!

This is yet another example of fake news surrounding the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Woman Is Not FBI Assistant Director Janeen DiGuiseppi

Let me start by simply pointing out that the woman in the video screenshot is not FBI Assistant Director Janeen DiGuiseppi.

The FBI called those claims “categorically false“, and said that the woman was “not AD DiGuiseppi“, noting that she was not even in Pennsylvania at the time of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

The allegations circulating on social media about an FBI executive and the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania are categorically false. To be clear, the person depicted is not her and she did not attend the rally.

The FBI also called these falsehoods targeting its personnel “reprehensible and irresponsible“, noting that they “often lead to threats against them and their families“.

To date, attempts to identify the woman who wore a cap saying “Jesus is my saviour, Trump is my president” have failed, although some are claiming that she is Lori Carney from Pennsylvania, who is not an FBI agent.

But even without identifying her, it is obvious that she looks nothing like FBI Assistant Director Janeen DiGuiseppi. They have different jawlines and ear shapes.

Unsurprisingly, none of those making these baseless claims actually provided any evidence that the woman is FBI Assistant Director Janeen DiGuiseppi.

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Fact #2 : Evidence Show Thomas Crooks Acted Alone

On Sunday, 14 July 2024, the FBI gave a press briefing on the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It is still searching for a motive for the attack but said that the shooter – 20 year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, appears to have acted alone as a lone wolf.

At that press briefing, Kevin Rojek, an FBI special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, said:

At present, we have not identified an ideology associated with the subject. At this time, the information that we have indicates that the shooter acted alone and that there are currently no public safety concerns.

Sometime before the shooting, Crooks search the Internet for both Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, as well as the dates and locations of the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Sources also said that Crooks left a message on the Steam gaming platform, in which he allegedly declared, “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.

The day before the shooting, the counsel for the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club confirmed that Thomas Matthew Crooks practised on its rifle range. On the day of the assassination attempt, Crooks asked to borrow his father’s AR-15 style rifle, which was legally purchased 11 years ago in 2013, telling him that he planned to go to the shooting range.

Crooks then went to a local gun shop to buy 50 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition, before stopping at a Home Depot to buy a 5-foot ladder (which was not found at the scene). He then drove to the Trump rally, and parked about a third of a mile away at a gas station.

For at least an hour before the shooting, Crooks was seen walking around the rally area. At no point in time was he seen interacting with a co-conspirator. When the FBI cracked his phone, it did not reveal his motives or plans. His phone certainly did not show that he had any co-conspirators.

In short – the evidence currently show that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone, and there was no conspiracy.

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Fact #3 : This Is Just Fake News About Donald Trump

This is yet another example of fake news created about Donald Trump, like these other examples:

As campaigning for the 2024 US Presidential elections heats up, you can expect more fake news about Donald Trump to appear.

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Did Archbishop Vigano say WEF is behind Trump shooting?!

Did Archbishop Vigano say that the WEF is behind the assassination attempt of Donald Trump?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : Archbishop Vigano Said WEF Is Behind Trump Shooting!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims that Archbishop Vigano said that the WEF is behind the assassination attempt of Donald Trump!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Archbishop Viganò Warns Trump: ‘WEF Behind Assassination Attempt – They Will Try Again’

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò claims that the World Economic Forum is behind the recent assassination attempt of Donald Trump who he says will try to kill him again before the November election.

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Truth : Archbishop Vigano Did Not Say WEF Is Behind Trump Shooting!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Archbishop Vigano Did Not Say WEF Is Behind Trump Shooting!

Let me start by simply pointing out that Archbishop Vigano did not claim that the World Economic Forum (WEF) is behind the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

Carlo Maria Vigano (born 16 January 1941) is a highly controversial Archbishop, who has been spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19, the New World Order, etc. He was also recently excommunicated from the Catholic Church in June 2024.

If Archbishop Vigano ever made such a claim, it would have been widely reported by the mainstream media all over the world, and sparked outrage. It would also have been condemned and denied by the World Economic Forum. After all, the Archbishop would be publicly blaming the WEF for the assassination attempt.

Yet none of that happened because it was all made up! Unsurprisingly, the The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence to back up its “fact checked” claim.

Fact #2 : Archbishop Vigano Did Not Mention WEF In His Post

The only “evidence” for this claim appears to be a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Archbishop Vigano. While it was a conspiracy-fuelled rant about the “radical globalist Left” and the “New World Order”, he never once mentioned the World Economic Forum (WEF):

Adding to the previous criminal attacks against avowedly anti-globalist political leaders, is now this terrible attempt to eliminate President Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, the leading opponent of the radical globalist Left.

Why would anyone claim that Archbishop Vigano said that the WEF is responsible for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, when he never said it at all???

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Fact #3 : Archbishop Vigano Did Not Say Another Attempt Would Be Made

In addition, Archbishop Vigano never said in his post on X that the World Economic Forum (WEF) would make another attempt to assassinate Donald Trump before the US presidential election in November 2024.

A quick check also show that Archbishop Vigano never made any subsequent post alleging that the WEF would make another attempt on Donald Trump’s life before the November election. So why would anyone claim otherwise???

Fact #4 : The People’s Voice Is Known For Fake News

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should never share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice.  Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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