As celebrations and commiserations followed the US election result, claims about election fraud germinated online, but this time it wasn't just from Trump supporters.
Trump supporters have been a large source of false claims about election denial in the past, but following the 2024 election result, Harris supporters began to spread falsehoods also.Former president Donald Trump has been declared the winner of the 2024 US election and Vice-President Kamala Harris has conceded, setting up the peaceful transition of the US presidency from Democratic hands to Republican early next year.
"Post-elections and these sorts of things, conspiracy theories seem to be a nice way for people to make sense of what's happened to them." "People who found the election results unexpected or against what they were hoping for, some may entertain conspiracy theories as a way of understanding what's happening."
Although findings that Russian-linked entities made payments to right-wing influencers to spread disinformation are concerning, there's as yet no evidence that links this to the widespread swings towards Trump at the ballot.The videos and others that pretended to be from news organisations were tracked by BBC Verify, who described them as receiving little attention.
While in time, evidence may surface that proves the Russian regime directed the bomb threats and other interference, at this stage that evidence hasn't yet come to light and the disruptions themselves appear to have had little impact on the election outcome.constantly repeated
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