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Has China tried to maneuver the US presidential election? NYT says “Hoax”, the next day ……

The New York Times on Tuesday called a story circulating in conservative political circles about a software company's link with the Chinese Communist Party as a "right-wing conspiracy theory."

" In an invitation-only conference held in August in a secret location southeast of Phoenix, a group of election results deniers rattled off a new conspiracy theory about the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections ," reads the Times' original headline ( via Daily Caller ).

In the article, The Times wrote that Arizona's "right-wing" deniers had come up with a conspiracy theory that electoral software company Konnech had secret ties to the CCP and was passing them information on about two million polling workers. US elections.

" In the two years since former President Donald J. Trump lost his candidacy for re-election, conspiracy theorists have subjected election officials and private companies that play an important role in the election to a flurry of outlandish claims. on electoral fraud “, reads the article. “ But the attacks on Konnech show how far-right electoral deniers are paying more attention to new and more secondary societies and groups as well. Their claims often find receptive online audiences, who then use them to raise doubts about the integrity of the US elections . "

Too bad that, the following morning, Eugene Yu, a Konnech executive, was arrested for allegedly theft of voters' personal information.

So the conspiracy theory was not so much a theory as it was the truth: China really wanted the data of civil servants linked to the electoral service, to the point that there is a real investigation with lots of arrests. But for the New York Times it was a hoax, a conspiracy theory …

When the sbufalatori are puffed it is beautiful.


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The article Did China try to maneuver the US presidential election? NYT says "Bufala", the next day … … comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-cina-ha-cercato-di-manovrare-le-elezioni-presidenziali-usa-nyt-dice-bufala-il-giorno-dopo/ on Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:54:55 +0000.