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A dubious document apparently unearthed by a random Twitter/X account sent several prominent figures on the right into a tizzy on Sunday, despite very obvious problems with its legitimacy.
The document in question was an alleged affidavit originally featured on a questionable-looking website called “County Local News,” which Newsguard describes as an “unreliable” and “AI-generated content farm” that peddles in “misinformation,” and shared by an account called “Black Insurrectionist – I FOLLOW BACK TRUE PATRIOTS.” The affidavit purports to be from a whistleblower who worked at ABC News, and claims that Vice President Kamala Harris got questions ahead of the Sept. 10 ABC News debate.
The “affidavit,” which is riddled with typos, includes several outlandish claims, including the allegation that ABC agreed to a condition of the Harris campaign that it not ask any questions “regarding the perceived health of President Joe Biden.”
There is nothing to suggest that any of these documents are legitimate or came from any reliable sources. The “affidavit” itself claims it was “signed and notarized on September 9th, 2024,” a day before the Sept. 10 debate, and that this supposed whistleblower “sent a certified letter to myself, postmarked September 9, 2024” via both U.S. mail and FedEx, plus another copy of the letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Johnson has neither tweeted about these claims nor reported that he received any such letter.
A dubious document apparently unearthed by a random Twitter/X account sent several prominent figures on the right into a tizzy on Sunday, despite very obvious problems with its legitimacy.
The document in question was an alleged affidavit originally featured on a questionable-looking website called “County Local News,” which Newsguard describes as an “unreliable” and “AI-generated content farm” that peddles in “misinformation,” and shared by an account called “Black Insurrectionist – I FOLLOW BACK TRUE PATRIOTS.” The affidavit purports to be from a whistleblower who worked at ABC News, and claims that Vice President Kamala Harris got questions ahead of the Sept. 10 ABC News debate.
The “affidavit,” which is riddled with typos, includes several outlandish claims, including the allegation that ABC agreed to a condition of the Harris campaign that it not ask any questions “regarding the perceived health of President Joe Biden.”
There is nothing to suggest that any of these documents are legitimate or came from any reliable sources. The “affidavit” itself claims it was “signed and notarized on September 9th, 2024,” a day before the Sept. 10 debate, and that this supposed whistleblower “sent a certified letter to myself, postmarked September 9, 2024” via both U.S. mail and FedEx, plus another copy of the letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Johnson has neither tweeted about these claims nor reported that he received any such letter.
