Social Media Claims Misrepresent Election Software CEO’s Arrest
Posted on AllSides October 17th, 2022
From The Left
FACT CHECK
Social media platforms have flooded users’ feeds with claims that undermine the integrity of U.S. elections since 2020.
Now, about a month before the midterm elections, conspiracy theorists and election-fraud peddlers are pushing claims that the arrest of an election software company CEO is proof that their many debunked claims were true.
A worker carries ballots at a Los Angeles County Registrar processing center on Nov. 5, 2020. Photo by Keith Birmingham via Getty Images.
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, for example, claimed that the arrest was proof of “another election integrity ‘conspiracy theory’ confirmed.”...
