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The FBI cited four fake stories being shared on social media trading on the agency's reputation to give credence to lies.
Those included a video stating that “at least 301 electors reported attempted bribery and blackmail" from a political party, the agency said in a news release. Another claimed that agents had tried to cover up the bribery scheme by pressuring news media outlets from reporting it, the release continued.
That is also not true, the agency said.
Another video claiming agents were looking into "voter pressure at U.S. military bases overseas” is also untrue.
The fourth story said that a social media company had "seen a rise in the number of separatist groups, with a total audience of more than 40,000,000 people," the FBI noted. The video goes on to say that the agency had forced the company to block those communities "promptly."
Claims of voter fraud and potential election tampering were rampant before the presidential election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, and these fake FBI reports play into those paranoid narratives.
President Joe Biden gave a speech in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday, Nov. 7, saying he hopes the election results will "lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electorate system."
"It is honest, it is fair and it is transparent," Biden said. "And it can be trusted, win or lose."
He also promised to "honor the Constitution" for a peaceful transition of power on Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in for his second, non-consecutive term in the Oval Office.
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