Social media users are again sharing a photo of a woman doing a Nazi salute while wearing a T-shirt with a Soviet emblem, saying it shows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The photo was altered to edit Greene’s face onto the woman in the original image.
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Social media users are sharing a fabricated headline that falsely claims a police officer was ‘caught dealing fentanyl’ to trick-or-treaters. The original headline said the officer was accused of dealing cocaine, and made no mention of children.
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Former President Barack Obama won the 2008 and 2012 elections in several states with voter ID laws, and lost in some states that didn’t require ID, contrary to claims circulating on social media.
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Widespread social media posts in recent days have peddled baseless claims and conspiracy theories about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. has the facts.
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Pre-filled voter registration forms sent to Texans by Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s campaign are permitted under state law, experts and officials say. Some may have been sent to dead people because of out-of-date databases, but that is not proof of voter fraud.
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En EEUU los resultados electorales no siempre se conocen de manera inmediata, AP te explica por qué
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It’s the night of the election. Polls in the U.S. have been closed for hours. And yet, many races remain unresolved.
Here’s why.
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A widely circulating video of former President Obama speaking at a Saturday rally in Michigan has been altered to make it seem as if the crowd was shouting anti-Biden chants. No such chanting can be heard in the original footage.
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No ballots were on a U.S. Postal Service vehicle when it caught fire on Monday in Baker County, Georgia, according to state officials. The fire has sparked baseless claims of election manipulation.
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Contrary to claims spread online this week, Pennsylvania didn’t mail out a quarter-million ballots to voters whose identities were not verified. Officials said the claim misrepresents how voters are classified in a state database.
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A tweet from Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist claimed that Florida is the most expensive state to live in. Experts say this is misleading. While there is no one way to calculate cost of living, Florida does not rank highly in most assessments.
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False claims about House Republicans' agenda, postage on mail-in ballots and the death of a red panda cub were shared widely online this week.
has the facts.
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EEUU: ¿Por qué no es grave que los resultados de las elecciones en vivo fluctúen? AP te lo explica.
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EXPLAINER: People reporting election results occasionally transpose two digits or swap candidate tallies by mistake.
Fortunately, election offices and polling firms have quality control measures to ensure this happens rarely and gets fixed quickly.
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EEUU: ¿Qué pasa cuando las boletas son dañadas o son llenadas incorrectamente? AP te explica paso a paso lo que se hace en estos casos.
When a ballot is damaged, election workers transcribe or “duplicate” the ballot so it can be scanned.
The process varies by state, but many call for it to be done by representatives of different parties.
It’s a standard part of election administration.
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GOP officials are omitting important context in posts about people on the government's terrorist watchlist who have crossed into the U.S. at the southwest border. While people on the list have crossed the border, they were detained by border agents.
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Despite false posts online, the German satirical magazine Titanic didn't publish an October cover with an illustration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The image was fabricated.
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Courts in Wisconsin and Delaware found certain voting procedures from the 2020 election to be unconstitutional. However, contrary to claims made on social media, that did not make the elections “illegal.”
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A video circulating online has been altered to make it appear that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a question on oil companies, and promptly ended a press briefing. Her answer was cut out of the video. Here are the facts.
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Several states require U.S. absentee voters to pay for postage to send in ballots. But the postal service will deliver mail-in ballots regardless of whether they were mailed with the correct number of stamps or not. has details. apne.ws/c95kECF
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First lady Jill Biden’s remarks at a Diwali reception on Monday were not interrupted by a child cursing at her, despite what a video purportedly shows.
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A red panda cub at the Toronto Zoo recently died, but there’s no connection to COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to false suggestions on social media. A zoo representative said the cub didn’t receive the vaccine.
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En Estados Unidos los sistemas de votación son confiables, a pesar de las conspiraciones que se han difundido desde las elecciones de 2020. AP te explica por qué.
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This year’s U.S. primary season took place with no major problems related to voting machines, undercutting the conspiracy theories that have sought to cast doubt on whether they are secure and accurate. Reporting by .
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A manipulated video circulating online makes it appear that Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly claimed most people hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 are vaccinated. The audio was edited, as the explained last year. Here are the facts.
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A post that distorts the House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” plan has been circulating on Twitter, with some users thinking it reflects official GOP policy. Here are the facts.
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Former President Trump did not sign an order to deploy 20,000 troops on Jan. 6. A new Massachusetts driver's license law is not automatically registering immigrants to vote. And no, a news report didn't admit "chemtrails" are real.
Here are the facts.
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EEUU: ¿se pueden contar boletas de personas fallecidas? AP te explica cuáles son los medios que tienen los funcionarios electorales para verificar el fallecimiento de votantes.
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Election officials use death records to ensure dead people’s ballots aren’t counted, and may also check other records like canceled driver’s licenses. Even if such a ballot is cast, signature verification and voter fraud laws create additional safeguards.
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Twitter users are falsely claiming that the U.S. military is currently invading Haiti. While the U.S. has proposed a U.N. resolution authoring a mission to Haiti to improve that country’s security, no such force has been deployed.
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A CDC decision to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule would not automatically make it mandatory for schools. That’s up to individual states. Get the facts.
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Social media users are recirculating an altered video that misrepresents clips from a 2014 speech by former President Barack Obama. The edited video has spread online for years.
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Social media users are misrepresenting a clip from a music video to falsely claim that it shows a Ukrainian soldier acting out an injury. Here are the facts. apne.ws/OPHmErj
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¿Pueden votar en Estados Unidos quienes no son ciudadanos? La ley federal lo prohíbe. te explica por qué:
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U.S. law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections. While there have been anecdotal reports of noncitizens registering and casting ballots, studies and investigations show this is extremely rare.
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Social media users are sharing a clip from the video game Arma 3, falsely claiming it depicts real conflict in Ukraine. Footage of the military simulation game has been repeatedly misrepresented as video of the war.
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. revisó todos los posibles casos de fraude electoral en los seis estados disputados por el expresidente Donald Trump y encontró menos de 475, cifra que no habría marcado ninguna diferencia en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020.
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¿Cómo lo sabemos? Los resultados fueron objeto de auditorías y revisiones. El litigio que buscaba impugnar los resultados no tuvo éxito. La agencia de seguridad cibernética del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional dijo que las elecciones fueron seguras.
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En 2022 continúan difundiéndose afirmaciones falsas de fraude generalizado en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020.
Sin embargo, a pesar de las contínuas aseveraciones, ocurrió lo contrario: la elección fue válida y ganó el presidente Joe Biden:
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