On the eve of the US elections, which will take place on November 5, the Internet and social networks flooded false statements about violations during voting. The BBC reported a record number of fake accusations, which mainly come from supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Hundreds of reports of probable voting violations are distributed by individuals, as well as independent groups and organizations related to the Republican Party, with some statements received from Democrats.
The stream of accusations on the Internet has become a serious challenge for election commissions trying to debunk rumors and reassure voters on the eve of Voting Day on Tuesday. Almost all of these messages support Trump's false statement about his victory in the 2020 elections and hints that he may be deprived of his victory on November 5.
When asked if he recognizes the results of the election of 2024, Donald Trump stated in September that he recognized if the elections were "honest, legal and transparent." The CNN/SSRS survey, published on Monday, showed that 70% of Americans expect Trump to recognize the results if he loses. This week he himself declared mass falsifications in a key oscillatory state:
"Pennsylvania is frauding and causing it, and on such a scale that rarely meet before," Trump wrote on his social network "Pravda". "Report the fraud authority. Law enforcement agencies must act, immediately!"
This statement appeared after the officials of the three districts of Pennsylvania reported that they were cooperating with local law enforcement agencies, investigating some applications for voter registration for possible fraud.
Although Trump and his allies have taken up these statements, the chief election official of the state, Republican El Schmidt, called for caution, warning voters about the danger of "half -truth" and misinformation that spreads on social networks. "This indicates that the protective mechanisms of our voter registration process work," he said.
BBC recorded hundreds of accusations of falsification of elections spread on the Internet, on the platforms of social networks, bulletin boards and chat groups. Some of these posts have collected millions of views.
These reports argued that non -citizens were easy to vote, spread false information about voting machines, and distrust in the process of calculating the ballots.
One of the videos, which claimed that the Haitian's newcomers vote in Georgia, was exposed BBC as fake due to false addresses and the use of stock photos that indicate fake. On Friday, US intelligence services said the video was shot by "Russian agents of influence."
On another platform, "X", a user who argued that he was a Canadian, posted a photo of the newsletter, saying:
"I decided to move across the border and vote."
It also turned out to be a fake related to coordinated efforts on a 4chan marginal board. The shown newsletter belonged to the state of Florida, where the voting requires a person's identity, and which is about 20 hours from the border with Canada.
In the Northhampton County, Pennsylvania, a video appeared on the platform X where a man carries a container with ballots to a court building that caused suspicion of users. It turned out that it was a postal worker who delivered the ballots sent by mail, but the video was already watched more than five million times.
Experts are concerned that an increase in misinformation on the eve of Voting Day can undermine citizens' confidence in election results or provoke threats and acts of violence both before and after the election.
Democrats are preparing to respond quickly to fill social networks and air calls for peace and patience when counting votes, if Donald Trump again tries to declare his victory in the election again, as it was in 2020.
