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.

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    26 days ago

    Seems like Linus made the right call, and you are absolutely on the right track for dealing with these types moving forward.

    If you hate something so much you stop building and direct your energy entirely into regressing, you have broken the key social contract that allows you to waste your time on a key board and you should be socially excluded from participating.

    Caillou misbehaved, too. That didn’t slide.