Did rogue AI agents infiltrate voting machines in Tarrant County, Texas, and cast votes during early voting?
NewsGuard’s “False Claims of the Week” highlights claims from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints, a proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. Claims are chosen due to their spread, engagement, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting the claims. Those three factors, as well as the significant subject matter and potential for harm, make it our False Claims of the Week. This week, NewsGuard is combining three claims, due to the overlap in their content, tactics, and distribution, and their shared origins as Russian election interference.
By Sam Howard
What’s happening: In the final days of the midterm elections, a Russian influence operation released fabricated videos purporting to show serious allegations leveled against three Democratic Senate candidates in battleground states.
The influence operation, known as Storm-1516, produced a video depicting a purported TV news report featuring allegations of sexual assault against Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown by four former aides. Russia also pushed a fake video depicting a former student of Texas Democrat James Talarico accusing him of sexual assault in middle...
Footage from Palm Beach County, Florida, shows a plane nosediving into the ground at full speed, cratering the pavement, and dissolving into fire and smoke. It looks unreal. So unreal that some so...