Recent video purportedly showing a man destroying ballots marked for Trump is a disinformation campaign, say officials
Russian actors were behind a viral video falsely showing mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in the swing state of Pennsylvania, US officials said on Friday, amid heightened alert over foreign influence operations targeting the upcoming election.
The video, which garnered millions of views on platforms such as the Elon Musk-owned X, purports to show a man sorting through mail-in ballots from the state’s Bucks county and ripping up those cast for the former president.
There needs to be a way where people can be as misinformed as they like but policy and institutions and basically everyone else—like—doesn’t have ti give a fuck.
Like, they wanna watch Fox News or worse all day and get bamboozled by Truths™️ and memes, be our guest.
We need to start idiot-proofing society even further to where these folks are basically irrelevant besides whether their rights and obligations are being mutually ensured. If they are socially disruptive they need to understand they wont be getting The Donald criminal justice experience, they are always so gobsmacked when they have to find out there’s no jet coming for them
If their “news” source can be shown to be a nexus through which they have been radicalized and linked to the flowing criminal initiatives, that also needs to stop and be held accountable. Are they also allowed to erroneously yell that a theater is on-fire causing mass stampede deaths and disfigurement?
