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  • 2021-02-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Mike Lindell's 'Absolute Proof' Vid on Election Fraud Run with Disclaimer Labeling Content as Opinion? (en)
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  • On Feb. 5, 2021, the One America News Network (OANN) aired a documentary produced by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell that promised to deliver Absolute Proof (hence the title of the film) that the 2020 election had been stolen from former U.S. President Donald Trump via various manners of election fraud. While Lindell promised to deliver proof of his claims, OANN ran a lengthy disclaimer before the video explicitly saying that the claims made in the movie did not represent the network's own reporting, and that all of the statements made within should not be interpreted by the viewer as established facts. This disclaimer truly aired before the start of Absolute Proof on OANN. Here's the text of the disclaimer in full: OANN likely ran this disclaimer for two reasons: First, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems filed lawsuits against various people and news networks for falsely reporting that their companies were involved with voter fraud. Tom Clare, a lawyer for Dominion, told Mother Jones that this disclaimer would not spare the network from a lawsuit: The other reason OANN may have added this disclaimer is because Lindell's Absolute Proof video is replete with widely discredited claims about voter fraud and should not, as stated in the disclaimer, be interpreted as established fact. Absolute Proof rehashes a number of debunked rumors. Here are some of the facts: There simply is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Or, as Trump's Attorney General William Barr said: We have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election. While OANN truly ran a disclaimer ahead of Absolute Proof stating that Lindell's movie contained opinions, not facts, it should be noted that OANN did not use this cautionary tone while promoting this video. In one tweet, OANN wrote: That tweet would later be tagged with a disclaimer from Twitter, stating: This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence. (en)
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