Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was among the right-wingers to fall for a fake report claiming that an unnamed whistleblower from ABC News—who is fueling accusations of the debate being rigged against President Donald Trump but who hasn’t been confirmed to actually exist—died under suspicious circumstances.

Except the report is entirely untrue and the alleged whistleblower (who may not be real) is not dead.

Some skeptics—a significant share of whom are conservatives themselves—continued to cast doubt on the existence of a whistleblower at all, given that the claim traces back to an X account with the name “Black Insurrectionist–I FOLLOW BACK TRUE PATRIOTS.”

That account alleged last week it had an affidavit from an ABC News whistleblower detailing how the outlet purposely gave Vice President Kamala Harris an advantage.

On Sunday, the account released a document that redacted the whistleblower’s name and information as well as the notary stamp. In it, the alleged whistleblower said they worked at ABC News for over 10 years and believed the outlet had become biased against Trump.

The document stated that ABC News agreed to fact-check Trump but not Harris during the debate, provided the Harris campaign sample questions in advance, and agreed not to broach certain topics such as President Joe Biden’s health.

ABC News denied providing Harris advance questions. Linsey Davis, one of the debate moderators, stated that the rigorous fact-checking of Trump was designed to...

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