The event management and ticketing website Eventbrite has been hosting and profiting off of multiple events to screen the film 2000 Mules, which pushes the same false claims about voter fraud that led to the January 6 insurrection, even though the platform’s community guidelines prohibit “harmful misinformation.”

The movie, a purported documentary from conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, claims to show evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. However, multiple outlets including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, NPR, and the independent conservative outlet The Dispatch have debunked the film’s claims. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who was appointed under former President Donald Trump, has also rebutted the film, which he described as “singularly unimpressive.”

The film’s misinformation would seem to be a violation of Eventbrite’s community guidelines, which prohibit content that “promotes potentially harmful misinformation or intentionally deceptive disinformation.” Eventbrite has even previously established precedent that voter fraud misinformation violates this rule, removing an event page for a post-election Trump rally in November 2020 that planned to push false voter fraud claims.

Despite that, a review by Media Matters found multiple event pages promoting screenings of the movie. Some of the event pages involved directly selling tickets for the movie, meaning...

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