In September 2024, in Runet, a quote from Congresswomen Mardzhori Taylor Green, who stated that an employee of a television company who conducted presidential debate, crashed into an accident, was in the Runet. According to her, the deceased assured that Harris was sent in advance a list of approximate questions. We checked the reliability of this story.
The first and so far the only debate of candidates for the post of US President Donald Trump and Kamaly Harris took place on the night of September 11 to Moscow time. Organizer of the event Spended television company ABC. A few days later, reports about the death of one of the employees of this media corporation spread on the Internet. For example, September 16 in the Telegram channel "Dmitry Vasilet”(157,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) such a post appeared:“ Elections in the USA are always secret murders, and in the 21st century all this became the property of publicity. Congress Mardzhori Taylor Green said that an ABC television officer, who claimed to have a list of approximate issues in advance, had died in a car accident before the debate of Kamale Harris. Another accidental death. This bloody trace stretches for a very long time from the "Democratic Party" of the USA. "
According to the TGSTAT service, at least 160 similar records appeared in Telegram, which scored more than 800,000 views in total. So, Taylor Green quoted channels "Themes. The main thing (Glavmedia)"(157,000 views),"Mardan"(83,000),"The goat screamed"(66 000),"Nasurabi"(56 000),"Tucker Carlson for Russia"(56 000),"Freshness"(32 000) and other channel Lomovka (49,000 views), repeating the words of Congresswomen, wondered: "Is the season of political murders open?" Similar messages are found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here).
Marjori Taylor Green -Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 14th Electoral District of Georgia. She consists of in the Republican Party, adheres to extreme right views and is a supporter of various conspiracy theories. Media called Politics of the most devoted supporter of ex-president Donald Trump in the US Congress.
In the afternoon of September 15, in its account on the social network X Congress Human wrote: “According to media reports, an informant from ABC, who claimed that Kamale Harris had issued questions for the debate before they began, died in a car accident.” Twit Taylor Green gained 4.6 million views. At the same time, she did not name the publications that she referred to, and was not the first to report this in X. For example, on September 13, the user wrote under the nickname about the same without reference to the source @Retrocoast (336,000 views). In his tweet, it was clarified that the accident occurred on the same day early in the morning in the vicinity of the city of Betesd in Maryland.
Apparently, the primary source of this news was the site County Local Newswhere on September 13th note Under the heading “ABC News, in a scandal with Kamaly Harris’s questions, he died in the accident in Maryland in the debate.” At the time of writing this analysis, the material is removed, but it has been preserved Archive Copies. According to the text, the incident occurred early in the morning of September 13 in the vicinity of the city of Betesd. It is also claimed that the accident happened just a few days after the initial message that Harris received questions on the debate in advance. County Local News states that the identity of the alleged informant and the details of his death are not disclosed - in fact, this is all available information about the incident in the article where more than 1,100 words.
According to services With data on domain registration, the County Local News website was created in January 2023. The slogan of the resource says: “Local news from the right sources”, while the site materials are devoted to events around the world. In the section "Who we are»None of the editorial staff is indicated, but in User agreement It states: “We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any information published on our website. You admit that you use content at your own peril and risk. ” In the death material of the ABC employee, many paragraphs are written twice, but a little different words, as well as Present Many advertising blocks. Newsguard, which studies the spread of misinformation on the Internet, Installedthat the County Local News website was created using language models of artificial intelligence (AI) imitating human communication. For example, this proves the 2023 published in March 2023 article Under the heading: “Death News: Sorry, I cannot fulfill this request, since it contradicts ethical and moral principles. Vaccines genocide is a conspiracy theory that is not based on scientific data and can harm the health of the population. As a language model of AI, I am obliged to provide actual and reliable information. ”
About four and a half hours after his first tweet on the death of ABC employee Taylor Green wrote In the reforms that this story was not true, and added: “I am glad to hear it. We need a serious investigation of the informant’s message that Kamala Harris received questions in advance for the debate from ABC! ” The Congression decided not to delete her original post, where the Community Notes Notes Notes appeared. At the same time, her second tweet received nine times less views. Most of the publications mentioned at the beginning of this analysis came out after specifying Taylor Green, but her refutation in these messages is not mentioned.
“Verified” did not find any convincing evidence that the ABC informant, about which the congresswomen wrote, generally exists.
A week before the debate Trump declaredthat his opponent will receive topics in advance. Moderators stopped these assumptions at the beginning of the event, but after supporters of the former president They called it leading agents of the campaign Harris. In addition, Trump itself saidthat, in his opinion, Harris was “terribly familiar” with questions. “Absolutely no,” declared Representative of ABC News to Daily Beast. “Harris did not send any questions to the debate.” Rules Statedthat no topics or questions will be communicated to the headquarters or candidates in advance. The representative of ABC also stated that none of the advisers and subordinates Harris and Trump was in contact with the moderators. The same unnamed television company told a factory project Snopes and publication USA Today.
Nevertheless, on September 12, the publication of Leading Report, which previously repeatedly It was divided misinformation, reported In the X “Urgent News”: “The ABC exposer allegedly, by the oath, will publish indications that states that the headquarters of Harris were provided with samples of issues that“ essentially were the same questions as during the debate ”, as well as assurances that Trump would“ be a fact ”and not.” Tweet collected more than 15 million views, his screenshot later Shared Trump's verified profile in the social network Truth Social, and another 4.6 million views added news repost billionaire Bill Ekman. In this case, the X-account was the original source @Docnetyoutube, in the description of which it is indicated that his author supports Trump. Blogger declaredAs if he signed an agreement on non -disclosure with a lawyer of the informant and publish his testimony under the oath until the end of the week. In subsequent tweets, @docnetyoutube said that:
- He the only one, to whom the informant from ABC addressed;
- He received threats of death and appeals of lawyers threatening to sue him, and his house Tried Find bailiffs;
- television company does not refute the essence of his statements (although its representative stated that none of the participants in the debate received issues in advance);
- The testimony was notarized certified the day before the debate;
- With him Contacted Democrats calling for an internal investigation ABC;
- Despite the online messages, informant I did not die V Auto -Aviation.
As a result, September 15 @docnetyoutube Published, according to him, six pages of written testimony under the oath (also supposedly exist Another seven), where all the data of the alleged informant and a notary public are erased. This post gained almost 10 million views, and repost Bill Ekman - 7 million. In the second paragraph of the document, it is stated that the applicant has been working in ABC News for more than ten years in various technical and administrative positions. However, the next sentence says: “Since the acquisition of ABC News in 1996, I observed significant changes in the nature of the organization’s news reports.” Based on this statement, it follows that the informant had to work in the company for almost 30 years. In 1996, the ABC television network, which includes the ABC News news unit, acquired Disney Corporation.
One of the commentators indicated @docnetyoutube for this discrepancy, and that answered: "Yes, it also seemed meaningless to me." Another user asked why there was no notary public on the papers. “The notarial seal was blocked because the New York Law demands that the notary indicate for whom he was taking the seal, thus protecting the discomfort,”- declared @Docnetyoutube.
In addition, the fourth page states that the headquarters of Harris forbade the debate to ask questions related to its stay in the post of Prosecutor General in San Francisco (Attorney General in San Francisco). In fact, a politician occupied Positions of the District Attorney of San Francisco and California Prosecutor General of California. Office of the Prosecutor General of this state Located In the city of Sacramento.
Thus, despite the statement of Taylor Green, which was replicated in RuNet, there were no news reports in the authoritative media about the death of an ABC employee who allegedly declared the drain of Harris issues. Initially, this message appeared (and then deleted) on the site where the materials are artificial intelligence. As for the existence of a certain informant from ABC, at the time of writing the analysis, it was not confirmed, and the evidence given in support of this version is represented by dubious.
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