After Trumps victory, US election falsehoods shift left [Video]

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.

The falsehoods promoted on sites including the Elon Musk-owned 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 his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

Left-leaning social media users also spread the unfounded theory that Musk — the world’s richest man and a vociferous Trump backer –- used his Starlink satellite internet company to rig the election by manipulating the …