False claims about the accuracy of voting machines that have spread across social media and alternative news platforms since the 2020 presidential election are likely to increase following Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to a report released by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group on Monday.
The report, Hoax in the Machine: Disinformation Against Voting Systems Manufacturers and Technologies in the 2022 US Midterm Elections, examined falsehoods about voting systems manufacturers—or VSMs—“generated between the 2020 general election and the 2022 midterm elections.”
Recorded Future’s analysts found that many of the claims about the accuracy of voting machines have been directed at three major VSMs: Dominion Voting Systems, Smartmatic and Election Systems & Software. As the report noted, all three companies faced unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud in the wake of the 2020 election. Dominion and Smartmatic have both filed multiple defamation lawsuits against allies of former President Donald Trump and right-wing media outlets for claiming that their machines were rigged to favor President Joe Biden.
“Recorded Future has already identified claims across numerous facets of the mainstream and alternative social media landscape suggesting that technologies deployed by the aforementioned companies will be used to falsify the results of the midterms,” the report said.
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