By WG Dunlop - AFP
Several social media posts shared thousands of times falsely claim that AT&T telecommunications company was hired to perform a "forensic audit" of Dominion Voting Systems' voting machines, and link that to the bomb that exploded on December 25. near one of the company's facilities in the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
"AT&T obtained a contract to perform a forensic audit on the Dominion voting machines and those machines were moved to Nashville last week," reads a fake Facebook post from December 27, 2020.
"The explosion 'turns out to have occurred' at the AT&T location where 'it turns out' that they controlled the supercomputer's cooling system and housed the dominion voting machines and units for forensic auditing," says the original publication in English. .
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Those claims are circulating on Facebook, Twitter, and the Reddit site.
Dominion Voting Systems, whose voting machines were used by various states in the presidential election, has been the target of multiple attacks by President Donald Trump and his supporters with unsubstantiated accusations that it participated in electoral fraud.
AFP Fact Check has already debunked several inaccurate claims about the company.
An explosion ripped through downtown Nashville on Christmas Day and killed the man suspected of setting off the bomb in the southern US city, according to US Attorney Don Cochran.
More than 40 buildings were affected, including one owned by AT&T.
But,
the information from an alleged audit of Dominion Voting Systems is false
.
The perpetrator of the Nashville blast was killed in the bombing, according to federal officials.
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Regarding these false publications, AT&T reported that it is not conducting an audit of the company.
"It's not true," Jim Greer, AT & T's associate vice president of corporate communications, told AFP by email when asked about the audit claim.
Dominion, for his part, also explained that the claim is false.
“This is another one of the strange lies that some well-known conspiracy theorists are spreading.
It has no credibility and should be ignored by any credible media outlet, ”a spokesperson said by email.
Facebook posts also falsely linked President-elect Joe Biden's brother-in-law to Dominion.
“Dominion is owned by Cerberus Capital Management, which is run by Staple Street Execs.
Joe Biden's brother-in-law, Steven Owens, is the co-founder of Staple Street Execs along with William Kennard, ”the fake posts say.
In reality, Dominion was "acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital," according to a 2018 release. Staple Street was co-founded by Stephen Owens, and not by the husband of Biden's sister Valerie, whose name is Jack Owens.
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