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On 3 November 2016, multiple web sites published articles reporting that a Chattanooga-area NBC affiliate accidentally posted the results of the 2016 election early (suggesting the outcome was fixed for Hillary Clinton): A screenshot archived from the worldnow.com domain and and attributed to WRCB was shared with various versions of the story. The general election claim is nearly identical to a similar rumor that the Indiana primary was rigged against Bernie Sanders and for Hillary Clinton, with election results shared by a news station prior to the actual vote given as proof. However: This phenomenon appears in nearly every election. In 2012, ABC and CBS affiliates prompted similar rumors with in-house result tabulation tests appearing to predict President Barack Obama's re-election: On 5 November 2016, WRCB openly acknowledged the existence of and purpose for the leak of the election results: The station (and other Associated Press affiliates) did not post election results early, but instead suffered an extremely common glitch while testing election night software that inadvertently exposed sample outcomes to the public during routine testing.
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