Narratives
A catalog of propaganda narratives about elections: the core claim, where it first appeared, who amplified it, and how far it spread.
Debunked
““Voting machines flipped votes””
First detected: November 2020
The claim that electronic voting machines secretly altered vote totals in 2020. It was authoritatively refuted by full hand recounts of paper ballots and by court rulings that the statements were false, and it produced record defamation settlements.
Corroborated
““The election is already rigged””
First detected: 2016
A pre-emptive delegitimization narrative that primes audiences to reject an election result before any votes are counted. It recurs across countries and is amplified by state-linked information operations; it is a messaging pattern, not evidence of any actual fraud.