![]() “I’ve cried,” Yu, who sued True the Vote over the allegations, told the Times. Yu claimed to have received death threats and gone into hiding as a result of True the Vote’s allegations. Yu told Thompson True the Vote’s claims were false and denied that his company had any ties to Beijing. “To believers, the claims showed how China had gained near complete control of America’s elections.” “In the ensuing weeks, the conspiracy theory grew as it shot around the internet,” Thompson wrote. Times reporter Stuart Thompson’s Monday story reported on the election integrity advocacy group True the Vote, which claimed in August to have hacked into Konnech’s database and learned that the company stored data on a server in China, which would be illegal. 3: lengthy feature “debunking” a “conspiracy theory” about security of poll worker data.Īll from a newspaper that spent *years* pushing the absurd conspiracy theory that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia. ![]() “I have never seen anything age this poorly, this quickly,” The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway quipped on Twitter. ![]() ![]() But the very next day, Konnech founder and CEO Eugene Yu, was arrested by LA’s liberal district attorney for allegedly giving the Chinese government access to the personal data of nearly two million U.S. The initial story claimed that a “conspiracy theory” about an elections software company having ties to Beijing was a pack of lies that left the owner, a Chinese immigrant, in tears. A New York Times story Monday about a group of “ far-right election deniers” aged especially poorly when the same journalist was forced to write a story making their case the very next day. ![]()
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