A steady stream of false and misleading information is circulating online around the 2024 election. A woman who was shown in a video shouting at a young girl in a stroller outside the Houston rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday is being falsely identified in social media posts that went viral. She is not a former employee of the Harris County Democratic Party.

Here’s a look at the facts.

Woman in video shouting at a child outside a Houston rally is falsely identified

CLAIM: A video shows a former employee of the Harris County Democratic Party in Texas screaming at a small child outside of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Houston rally on Friday.

THE FACTS: That’s false. Social media users misidentified the woman in the video as Jordan Bowen, an organizing director for the county party from 2021 to 2023. The HCDP wrote in an Oct. 26 Facebook post that the woman in the video “is not and never has been” employed by HCDP or the Texas Democratic Party.

Bowen, who also worked as a fellow for HCDP from 2019 to 2020, told The Associated Press she attended the rally, but said she was unaware of any issue until friends started texting her, asking what was going on. Nasty messages, including death threats, quickly followed. Her mother’s address and work information were posted online.

In photos from the rally that Bowen shared with the AP, she looks nothing like the woman in the video. She is wearing a baggy gray shirt, glasses and a hat with “HOU” in rainbow letters. Her...

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