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Social media posts baselessly claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris wore earrings outfitted with audio units in an effort to cheat throughout her debate with former President Donald Trump. Related unfounded claims circulated earlier than or after debates in 2016 and 2020 with Trump’s previous political opponents.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump clashed of their first presidential debate on Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. Earlier than the controversy, the candidates agreed to a set of rules, together with no prewritten notes or props and no interplay with their employees members in the course of the two business breaks.
However viral posts on social media baselessly claimed that Harris cheated by carrying earrings that contained earphones and steered that her remarks and responses have been fed to her in the course of the debate.
A Sept. 10 Instagram post, which obtained greater than 39,000 likes, mentioned, “The earphone earring that Kamala was apparently carrying was created in early 2023.” The post shows a picture of an article touting “Nova H1 audio earrings.”
Another Instagram post reads: “BUSTED! SHE’S WEARING EARPHONE EARRINGS.” The put up reveals photographs of Harris’ pearl earring and an identical however not similar earring recognized in an advert as a Nova H1 audio earring.
The posts are echoes of unfounded claims made about Trump’s earlier political adversaries earlier than or after debates.
In September 2016, after the primary debate between Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the web site Charisma Information falsely claimed that closeup photographs of Clinton’s ear confirmed she was carrying an earpiece or listening to support. PolitiFact examined photographs of her ear on the night time of the controversy that didn’t present any listening to gadget, and a Clinton spokesperson informed PolitiFact she “was not carrying an earpiece.”
In September 2020, the Trump marketing campaign claimed that former Vice President Joe Biden had refused to conform to a pre-debate inspection for digital earpieces, as we wrote then. Biden’s deputy marketing campaign supervisor, Kate Bedingfield, reportedly referred to as the declare “absurd” and said, “In fact, he isn’t carrying an earpiece.”
After the controversy on Sept. 29, 2020, social media posts made baseless claims that photos of Biden confirmed he was “carrying a wire” to an earpiece. As we wrote, higher-quality video of the controversy confirmed that what had been described as a “wire” on the posts was only a crease in Biden’s shirt.
The New York Occasions wrote in 2020 about what it referred to as “The Long History of ‘Hidden Earpiece’ Conspiracy Theories.” The report described unfounded claims that are inclined to recur each election cycle about hidden digital units utilized by presidential candidates, courting to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh mentioned Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to obtain teaching on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 2000.
The Harris marketing campaign declined to touch upon the declare that the vice chairman wore earrings outfitted with an audio gadget on the Sept. 10 debate.
Some social media customers have responded to the unfounded claims about Harris’ earrings. Within the community notes to a Sept. 10 put up on X, a reader wrote, “Rumors are unfounded, Harris wore earrings by Tiffany & Co. that she has worn many instances earlier than,” not Nova H1 Audio Earrings.
As well as, the web site “What Kamala Wore,” which covers Harris’ “style and elegance selections,” mentioned on Sept. 11 that the vice chairman wore “her South Sea Pearl Earrings from the Tiffany Hardwear assortment” on the debate. The article reveals photographs of the earrings Harris wore on the debate, which have an open setting under the pearls, versus the design of the Nova H1 audio earrings as shown on the website of the corporate that makes the product.
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