Democrats swept to victory in a closely watched US midterm election, delivering a strong rebuke to President Donald Trump and his Republican party.
At the same time, social media was awash with false claims that the election was fraudulent, including doctored screengrabs from media outlets, invented stories of illegal ballots and accusations of vote tampering.
Even as the votes are still being counted in some races, DW Fact check took a closer look at some election day disinformation.
Claim: "A highly coordinated scheme to steal an election is happening in real time," a right-wing media outlet claimed in a X post, viewed more than 700,000 times.
Attached was a security camera video showing a man helping voters at a polling booth in Lewiston, Maine, flipping through papers, marking ballots and speaking to them as they wrote. Other users in the thread claim they are Somali-American voters.
Verdict: Misleading
Although the footage itself appears genuine, the claim that it shows a coordinated effort to steal the election is not supported by the available evidence.
Maine's election law says: "A voter who is unable to read or mark the ballot because of physical disability, illiteracy or religious faith may request another person ... to assist the voter in reading the ballot or marking the ballot according to the voter's wishes."
That hasn't stopped the right-wing account, The Maine Wire, the outlet that shared the video,...
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