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A bug that affected Siri results over the weekend sparked a conspiracy theory that Democrats are working to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Biden from office.
There's no evidence to back that up. https://bit.ly/3phwlmD
There's no evidence to back that up. https://bit.ly/3phwlmD
Real Clear Politics never called Pennsylvania for Biden. He is still the president-elect. https://bit.ly/3kcYN5y
Here's more context from @daveyalba https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformation-distortions#false-claims-that-biden-lost-pennsylvania-surge-and-tech-companies-struggle-to-keep-up
A Michigan judge has not ordered a hand recount of the state's results — the secretary of state's office told me the rumor is "made up" https://bit.ly/35mqu7W
This video does not show trashed ballots for Trump — it shows spoiled ballots that were legally destroyed and discarded https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/facebook-posts/video-shows-spoiled-ballots-were-destroyed-and-dis/
Election workers did not "find" ballots for Biden overnight in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. They counted legitimate mail-in ballots. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/facebook-posts/election-workers-didnt-find-biden-votes-overnight-/
132,000 ballots in Fulton County, Ga. (where I grew up!) were not "identified as likely ineligible." Georgia election officials have repeatedly said they have found no credible examples of fraud. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/viral-image/no-132000-georgia-ballots-werent-likely-ineligable/
There is no evidence that 9,000 people cast improper ballots in Nevada after moving out of state, as Matt Schlapp claimed on Fox News https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/matt-schlapp/matt-schlapps-baseless-claim-9000-nevada-mail-ball/
This video doesn’t show an election worker destroying Trump ballots. It was a joke. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/blog-posting/no-video-doesnt-show-election-worker-destroying-tr/
Michigan’s government website does not say that Trump won the election there https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/instagram-posts/no-michigans-government-website-doesnt-say-donald-/
Eric Trump was wrong to say that a "system glitch" that stole votes from Trump in Wisconsin removed Biden's lead there https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/eric-trump/no-rock-county-did-not-have-glitch-stole-votes-tru/
This widely-shared map shows county-by-county election results in 2016, not 2020 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/viral-image/election-results-map-spreading-social-media-2016/
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