An alleged ABC News employee has stated that the news outlet struck an agreement with Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign to give the Democratic candidate preferable treatment during the Sept. 10 presidential debate, according to social media posts that circulated broadly on Sunday.

The social media posts included images of what are purported to be a sworn affidavit from the alleged ABC News whistleblower dated Sept. 9, the day before the debate. Some of the allegations against ABC News, as well as the employees’ personal information, are redacted from the images that spread throughout social media on Sunday.

ABC News moderated the presidential debate between former Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris, but the network only secured Harris’ participation by agreeing to certain pre-conditions, the author of the affidavit alleges.

Several social media users posted what they purported was a copy of the notarized affidavit, though it wasn’t immediately clear how the images of the document were obtained or whether they were authentic.

The document is dated Sept. 9 — the day before the debate — and the author claims to have sent correspondence to himself as well as Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — also dated Sept. 9 — to “establish a record that the correspondence was sent before the debate commenced.”

The post follows claims made earlier in the week by former Hillary Clinton advisor Mark Penn that an ABC News whistleblower...

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