In April, a 25-year-old man was visiting LA and met a girl he met on an app for anonymous hook-ups. Soon after he met her, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, livestreaming to 24,000+ viewers on Kick, jumped out of some bushes and falsely accused him of being a pedophile.
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This image does not show ballots for California's June 2, 2026 primary elections discarded in a Sonoma Valley dumpster. In fact, the photo shows empty ballot return envelopes from a 2018 election -- not marked ballots -- that were being recycled. Read more: u.afp.com/SzZ5
A great profile of top media forensics expert Hany Farid, a gem of a resource for journalists and investigators. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
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The false claim that a "ballot drop" gave Karen Bass thousands of votes and zero to Spencer Pratt, which rocketed across X and was picked up by Elon Musk, started with a prominent Qanon conspiracy account.
There was no batch of ballots with zero votes for Pratt.
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Paid partnership tags for prediction markets still appear on several posts casting doubt on California's election, including from:
- Top disinformers
- People charged over the January 6 insurrection
- An account that once admitted to taking money to share fakes linked to Russian disinformation
Paid partnership tags for prediction markets still appear on several posts casting doubt on California's election, including from:
- Top disinformers
- People charged over the January 6 insurrection
- An account that once admitted to taking money to share fakes linked to Russian disinformation
“I don’t trust anything. Every image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in my head, trying to figure out what I’m looking at. It’s over. Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
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Right-wing election deniers are claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass picked up thousands of votes in a suspicious "ballot drop" while Republican challenger Spencer Pratt received none, a statistical ...
Pro-Trump influencers are falsely claiming this photo shows California primary ballots in a dumpster.
In fact, it shows empty ballot return envelopes from a 2018 election -- not marked ballots -- being recycled in 2020 per state retention laws.
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A US mayoral race triggered a flood of misinformation from online influencers sponsored by betting companies -- exposing a new threat analysts warn could undermine the integrity of future elections.
