Harris' Earrings Have been Secret Earpieces to Assist Her Throughout Debate?

After the Sept. 10, 2024, debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former U.S. President Donald Trump, conspiratorial rumors surfaced claiming she secretly wore wi-fi earphones embedded in her earrings to obtain off-stage steerage through the occasion. 

Supporters of the conspiracy principle shared pictures of Harris on stage, describing her earrings as visually just like a product that certainly feeds audio to the wearer, known as NOVA H1 Audio earrings.

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Whereas the alleged NOVA H1 Audio earrings are an precise product seen at trade shows in 2023, and there are some bodily similarities between them and Harris’ earrings, there are additionally distinct visible variations between the audio tools and Harris’ earrings that we define under. Moreover, had she blatantly worn wi-fi earpieces — violating guidelines of the controversy prohibiting candidates from bringing any props or objects on stage — mainstream information shops would have lined the alleged offense. That had not occurred. For these causes, we rated this declare “Unfounded.”

We reached out to Harris’ crew asking for the precise model and design of the earrings she wore and for its response to the conspiracy principle. We additionally reached out to the corporate behind the audio earrings for its response to the declare that the vp supposedly wore its know-how. We’ll replace this report in the event that they reply.

As of this writing, there did not seem like a solution to buy the NOVA H1 Audio earrings, although the corporate’s web site had a contact kind. Based on a Kickstarter marketing campaign for the earrings that was final up to date in Might 2023: 

[They] are the primary clip-on earphones on the planet. These earrings are absolutely full of the newest know-how embedded in actual pearls to give you music, telephone calls and digital assistants all day lengthy. Like standard earrings, the NOVA H1 are positioned on the earlobes and mission the sound from contained in the pearl straight into your ear canal.

An update posted Might 31, 2023, titled “Firm Information” was readable solely by individuals who had contributed to the Kickstarter marketing campaign, and comments by supporters indicated that the corporate had introduced its chapter.

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Close-up photographs of Harris’ earrings on the controversy stage will be seen by way of Getty Photos. These pictures present earrings with a pearl and two prongs circling across the entrance of Harris’ earlobe to the again. 

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In the meantime, the clip-on NOVA audio earrings will be seen on the corporate’s official Instagram account and website. These pictures present the gadgets clipped to the surface of customers’ ear lobes. Moreover, in accordance with the below-displayed {photograph} of a wearer, the obvious prongs on the decrease half of the lobe gave the impression to be separate, hoop-style earrings — every with their very own piercing gap. (The picture under appeared in a January 2023 article wherein author Kate Kozuch described her expertise with the NOVA H1 earrings.)

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Following the controversy, the corporate up to date its website for the primary time in months, apparently to capitalize on the newfound curiosity within the earrings. The positioning promised a “Particular Version for Presidential Debates” would quickly be out there and stated firm officers would communicate solely with late-night talk-show host Jimmy Fallon about its product.

What earrings did Harris truly put on? Whereas there is not any solution to know for certain with out proof from Harris’ crew, a trend website “What Kamala Wore” run by journalist Susan E. Kelley claims she wore Tiffany HardWear pearl earrings. Certainly, these earrings on Tiffany’s website look just like the earrings Harris wore on the controversy stage. Based on Kelley, Harris has supposedly worn these earrings earlier than. 

This was not the primary time conspiracy theorists accused a presidential candidate of being “coached” from off-stage throughout a debate. Following the primary presidential debate of the 2016 election, we fact-checked the false claim that Hillary Clinton had a teleprompter hidden on her lectern. Additionally, in 2020, we addressed unfounded claims that Joe Biden was planning to put on an earpiece for a debate.