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Soon after U.S. Secret Service agents intervened to stop a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, social media users started spreading conspiracy theories about the incident, including that it was staged.
So it was perhaps appropriate that the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump - in an election closely watched around the world - was dominated by the endorsement of the biggest celebrity on the planet: Taylor Swift.
One post on X, formerly Twitter, has eight million views and claims Ms Harris was wearing âNova H1 Audio Earringsâ that act as wireless earphones.
Speakingto journalists on the possibility of an outdoor smoking ban, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton, said that the tax revenues generated by tobacco were âfour to five times the cost of the NHS annuallyâ.
And on Facebook, Peggy Hubbard â who ran unsuccessfully in 2022 to be the Republican Senate candidate from Illinois â posted a screenshot from the video and said, âHEY KAMALA!
The video included two clips of Trump, one from a 2023 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and the other from the presidential debate.
But it has an element of truth, because heâs also articulated support for states making their own decisions on what parameters to set for abortion policy, and this could empower legislators to ignore his advice about including exceptions.
Dorsainvilâs fear started during ABCâs Sept. 10 presidential debate from Philadelphia, when former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim about migrants in this small city about 45 miles west of Columbus, the stateâs capital.
A video circulating online appears to show a televised phone call in which former US president and Republican nominee Donald Trump seemingly insults soldiers on Fox News.
It added that as the proposed UK connection test âwould have little to no discernible policy impact and that eligibility criteria for social housing is already tightly defined, the government does not agree that its introduction would be a justifiable use of taxpayer money.
(Walzâs conservative critics have used the moniker in a derogatory manner to refer to his advocacy for making free menstrual products available in schools.)
The New York Times wrote in 2020 about what it called âThe Long History of âHidden Earpieceâ Conspiracy Theories.â The report described unfounded claims that tend to recur every election cycle about hidden electronic devices used by presidential candidates, dating to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to receive coaching on NBCâs âMeet the Pressâ in 2000.