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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Recent video purportedly showing a man destroying ballots marked for Trump is a disinformation campaign, say officials
Russian actors were behind a viral video falsely showing mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in the swing state of Pennsylvania, US officials said on Friday, amid heightened alert over foreign influence operations targeting the upcoming election.
The video, which garnered millions of views on platforms such as the Elon Musk-owned X, purports to show a man sorting through mail-in ballots from the state’s Bucks county and ripping up those cast for the former president.
On Thursday, the Bucks county board of elections declared the video “fake”, saying that the envelope and other materials depicted in the footage are “clearly not authentic materials” belonging to or distributed by them.
There was a time in recent memory when you could expect leaders of both parties and major candidates to step forward and repudiate the video and America’s adversary.
I would be surprised if Trump does not repeatedly reference this as evidence Democrats attempted to steal the election from now until his death.