Biden meets with Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, on Nov 13, 2024, in Washington. The falsehoods promoted on sites including X and Meta’s Threads range from unfounded claims about fraudulent vote tallies in key swing states to allegations that Trump ‘cheated’ to win against Harris. — AP
WASHINGTON: Right-wing falsehoods about voter fraud fell off a cliff after Donald Trump’s victory in the US election, but American liberals took a page from their playbook to push wild conspiracy theories that have fueled doubt about the democratic process.
The left-wing warping of reality underscores how disinformation is peddled across both sides of the political aisle, feeding information chaos on increasingly unmoderated social media platforms that has made it harder for users to decipher fact from fiction.
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