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Even before Election Day came, US President Donald Trump began to cast doubt. One of his messages: The election will be rigged, especially when it comes to voting by mail. Meanwhile, Trump repeatedly called for the counts to stop and tweeted “public fraud.”
Trump did not provide any evidence for his allegations, but the messages worked. “Stop the robbery” is one of the slogans that Trump supporters chanted in Thursday’s demonstrations. A page on Facebook also shows how quickly disinformation spreads. There, a public group called “Stop the steal” gathered more than 365,000 members in one day. 1000 new ones were added approximately every ten seconds. Now Facebook has blocked the page.
A Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement that there were worrying calls of violence among members of the group. The site was organized by the group “Women for America First”, which, among other things, opposes Covid 19 restrictions and supported Trump during his impeachment process.
Facebook and Twitter: They also flagged Trump’s false claims
Facebook and Twitter also had Trump’s early claim that he won the election, flagged and warned. “As soon as President Trump began spreading premature claims about his victory, we warned on Facebook and Instagram that votes were still being counted and a winner had not yet been predicted.” Facebook shared.
In a video shared by Trump about the alleged manipulation, Facebook also wrote that voter fraud is extremely rare and linked to an information page.
According to the OSCE election observers, there is no basis for the president’s allegations of fraud. “Trump’s manipulation accusations are unfounded,” said mission leader Michael Link of the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”. With his unfounded allegations of irregularities in the elections, the president of the United States damaged public confidence in democratic institutions, according to a report by the organization.
In light of the close race and the emerging legal battle over the election result, nervousness increased in many places. In metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, a group of Trump supporters tried to break into a polling place to stop the count. The group was detained by security guards. Similar scenes took place outside a polling station in Arizona’s Maricopa district, with some Trump supporters openly carrying weapons.
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