After the US midterm elections, false claims about election fraud spread on social media, including allegations that more than 20,000 fake ballots in favor of the Democratic Party had allegedly been found in Houston. In a written statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation called this information false and said it had conducted no election-related operation, Deutsche Welle reports.
A post viewed more than 400,000 times used three images that did not support the claim of a raid in Texas. A photo of an FBI vehicle was taken during another operation — a raid on an election warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, during which ballots from the 2020 election were seized this year. The vehicle bears the inscription FBI Atlanta.
Another image showed a warehouse facility in Houston, but it came from the website of the company Public Storage. The third photo showed ballots bearing the inscription of the San Francisco Department of Elections for the city and county, which was also unrelated to the alleged operation in Texas.
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