THREAD: Here are the stories I've published so far for @snopes on #ElectionDay.
First, here are data+sources for each election year going back to 2000 showing all votes did NOT used to be counted by election night. Share with conspiracy-prone friends. snopes.com/fact-check/ele…
Second, a false rumor about Sharpie pens and Illinois ballots was going around on Twitter this morning.
The Illinois State Board of Elections (@illinoissbe) tweeted the facts: "Sharpies are an approved ballot marking device for many voting systems." snopes.com/fact-check/sha…
Third, here are the facts about today's Maricopa County vote-tabulation machine issues, which a spokesperson referred to as "minor."
PLUS: Here's how people in the Arizona county can track their ballot online and confirm that their vote was counted. snopes.com/news/2022/11/0…
Fourth, the Detroit Department of Elections sent us a statement that spoke on Trump's absentee ballot rumor, calling the issue a "harmless data error" that has been "resolved." A Detroit Votes spokesperson added, "Everyone who wanted to vote got to vote." snopes.com/news/2022/11/0…
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1/ Facebook and @Meta continue to allow false and potentially defamatory posts about @Jeopardy host @missmayim to be promoted as paid ads on its platform, despite the fact that we notified the company last week. The company is profiting off of these ads. snopes.com/news/2022/04/0…
2/ All of the ads use the same text. Despite this, Meta, which brings in billions in revenue every quarter, is seemingly unable or unwilling to set something up to automatically flag ads that use these words: "Jeopardy fans are up in arms over the allegations pending against..."
3/ We've reported on the matter twice. The false ads lead to CBD scams. Here's our first story. snopes.com/fact-check/may…
1/ A brief thread. In the aftermath of the Rittenhouse verdict, meet "Renata Trump," a Facebook account with the username "renata.lewandowski.3." The account is an admin in the group named AMERICA NEEDS PRESIDENT TRUMP. The group's founder is deceased. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
2/ In another Facebook group named James Woods for Gov of California, a user named Drastic Bombastic posted "USA!" about the acquittal. The same account previously published election disinformation and likes a majority of Russian-language pages in Belarus. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
3/ Over in the Phillippines, three accounts run the Facebook pages named I Support Law Enforcement Officers and I Support The 2nd Amendment. The pages published posts that said "Not Guilty!" and linked to a sketchy website named Daily News Blitz. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
(THREAD) YouTube has removed multiple verified channels named “Fox News” and “Fox News Alert” following an Oct. 1 Snopes investigation that found they were pumping out disinformation to millions of subscribers. These channels were not managed by Fox News. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
1/ All of the YouTube channels posted long video clips from Fox News Channel. However, the thumbnails were altered to make it look like U.S. President Joe Biden was either dying or going to jail and that former U.S. President Donald Trump was coming back. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
2/ This was similar to a debunked QAnon conspiracy theory that led to federal authorities worrying of potential violence from Trump supporters when such disinformation inevitably failed to come true.
(THREAD) Ahead of the #60Minutes interview with the Facebook whistleblower, know this:
We contacted Facebook multiple times ahead of Jan. 6 to warn about violent rhetoric in a group with members that planned on taking matters into their own hands. snopes.com/news/2021/02/1…
1/ Facebook did not respond to us, despite multiple attempts to reach the company for comment.
We contacted the company warning them of the violent rhetoric and organizing that we saw, and we sent our emails in the days both before and after Nov. 3, which was Election Day.
2/ The New York Times later reported that a man named Keith Lee “spent the morning of Jan. 6 casing the entrances to the Capitol.” During the riots, he carried a bullhorn. “Mr. Lee called out for the mob to rush in, until his voice echoed from the dome of the Rotunda.”
(THREAD) These private Facebook groups that concentrate on anti-mask discussion about schools really are something else. They all appear to ignore the fact that both adults and children are being hospitalized and are suffering. Facebook employees make these groups possible.
1/ Group member claiming to be a parent says they moved from New York to Tennessee to escape "tyranny." Once they arrived, Tennessee had implemented measures to keep people safe, which apparently clashed with this person's views.
2/ A group member asks "when is your 'enough is enough'"?
The mistake made by the likely Russian account, an admin in a Pennsylvania for Trump Facebook Group, was that it appeared to have accidentally liked the page Молекулярная диагностика 2020. This was the only Russian page out of hundreds of page likes.
Forgot to switch accounts?
Молекулярная диагностика 2020 (Molecular Diagnostics) is a Moscow conference: "The leading event in the field of molecular diagnostics and related science and medicine trends in Russia."
It is supported by The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. bit.ly/31Kegna