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Since Tuesday, November 3, all eyes are on the results of the US presidential elections.
Even more when, In the early hours of Wednesday, November 4, Donald Trump, current president and Republican candidate, denounced an alleged fraud.
The announcement, arguably, was expected: months earlier, Trump had raised suspicions about early voting, which was conducted largely by mail.
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What did he say?
The accusations of the current president came after the ‘conquest’ of Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate, of key states, such as Michigan and Wisconsin, which secured him in the lead to reach the White House.
(Read on: Trump’s hope with the Arizona count.)
After those victories were made official, Trump responded on Twitter to an image of an electoral map of Michigan that allegedly showed how 138,000 votes had come in, out of nowhere, for Biden, but none for him.
A friend sent me this, from Google live coverage.
In an instant, Biden’s lead jumped to 138,339 votes in Michigan.
Not one was for Trump. Neither went after any of the third parties.
This is electoral fraud. Trump won Michigan. Period. pic.twitter.com/c0bMw8Uynf
– Eric Lendrum (#StopTheSteal) (@ EricLendrum26) November 4, 2020
(Do you read us from the app? See here the map Donald Trump shared on Twitter).
The image was posted by Matt Mackowiak, chairman of the Republican party for a county in Texas, but that tweet was removed.
The post caught the attention of Matt Walsh, a renowned political commentator, who wrote in reference to the map that “this is reason enough to go to the (Supreme) Court. No honest person can look at this and say that it is normal and not worrisome “.
And that was the thread that Trump replied with the message: “What is this all about?“, a comment that, as of Thursday, November 5, was about to reach 160,000 ‘likes’ on Twitter.
(If you read us from the app see here the trill Trump responding to the Michigan electoral map).
The origin of the map
The fact that the candidate shared an image that gave the reason to his alleged allegations of fraud it raised the suspicions of some media, which were in charge of investigating the origin of the viral map.
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As found by the chain ‘CNN’, the image was taken with a screenshot of the Decision Desk HQ website, a portal that the same medium described as “a reliable source of information“.
It was all a typing error made by those in charge of sending the data from Shiawassee County, Michigan. This was confirmed to ‘CNN’ by both the portal that released the data and a spokesperson for the electoral process in that part of the country.
The data was corrected in less than 30 minutes, Decision Desk HQ added, but the image had already gone viral on an 8kun forum about QAnon., a conspiracy theory in which it is argued that there is a conspiracy against Trump and everything he represents, found ‘CNN’ in their research.
Bad data map image appeared on QAnon believers forum
As soon as it became known that the image contained false information, Mackowiak removed it and rectified the data., something that Trump has not done yet despite the fact that, Moments after answering the trill of his partner, he published the map on his own in a second trill, said the media.
The latter was the subject of a Twitter alert, which blocked its display. The social network posted a sign in the trill that reads: “Some or all of the content shared in this tweet has been contested and may be misleading regarding how to participate in an election or other civic process”.
They did something similar with at least 14,000 tweets that included the image, in which warning labels of “misleading content” were put, Twitter told ‘CNN’.
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