AFP's fact-check service debunks misinformation spread online. Here are some of our recent articles on false claims in the United States: Social media posts claim an examination of Dominion vote-counting equipment revealed it automatically gave president-elect Joe Biden a 26 percent lead in Georgia's Ware County. This is false; officials said there is no truth to the allegations, and while a tabulation error in the hand count did misallocate 0.26 percent of the county's votes, it was caught and corrected. Videos viewed hundreds of thousands of times claim President Donald Trump won the election in a landslide but it was rigged so that he lost by millions of votes. This is false; Democrat Joe Biden is projected to have won the Electoral College and the popular vote, government experts and independent monitors have vouched for the ballot's integrity, and even Republicans have criticized the lawyer who made the claims without ever providing evidence. Social media posts claim about 100,000 votes cast in Nevada were fraudulent, surpassing US president-elect Joe Biden's margin of victory in the state. This is false; the Supreme Court of Nevada examined the claims and denied the request to overturn election results based on a lack of evidence of fraud. Social media posts contrast photos of large political events held by Barack Obama in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2020 to smaller gatherings for Joe Biden to cast doubt on the historic number of votes received by the president-elect. The images mislead; the 2020 campaign was heavily impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, with Biden opting for socially-distanced gatherings, while Trump continued to hold traditional rallies. 1. 2. 3. 4. afp