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On October 13, Black Insurrectionist posted that an unnamed, male former Walz student had contacted the X account in August, alleging Walz had sexually abused him in the s when he was a student at Alliance High School in Nebraska. Through more than 20 posts shared over almost 48 hours, Black Insurrectionist built the narrative around this allegation.

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But much of the purported evidence contained inconsistencies and inaccuracies. And the X account never offered verifiable proof to support the claim. And this baseless story has spread to other social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads and TikTok. TikTok also identified a video of the claim as part of its efforts to counter inauthentic, misleading or false content.

NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, debunked the claim, finding that a Russian disinformation operative was pushing it. The second email also lacked a comma after the day of the week. Black Insurrectionist wrote in an October 13 post that it contacted the Harris-Walz campaign before releasing details of this allegation.

In that post, the user shared a screen recording of a message being typed and sent through the Harris-Walz campaign website. But PolitiFact found a discrepancy with the date on which Black Insurrectionist said it contacted the Harris-Walz campaign. Sometime between September 11 and September 13, the campaign website was updated, changing certain design elements and colours.

For example, the X user wrote October 13 that the former student said Walz took him to an Indigo Girls concert in Nebraska in March In a subsequent post, the X user wrote that the former student said Walz sexually abused him after the concert. The article included an anecdote about Walz and his wife, Gwen, who was also a public schoolteacher in Nebraska, taking a gay student to an Indigo Girls concert in the s.

The article did not say exactly when or where the concert was held. In two subsequent posts, Black Insurrectionist shared screenshots of March and July board meeting minutes as purported proof. In their resignation letters, included in the meeting minutes, the Walzes wrote that they were resigning because they had accepted teaching positions at Mankato West High School in Minnesota.

But these details do not lend credibility, as some of them are factually inaccurate or were already public knowledge. It has been widely reported that Walz suffered hearing loss from decades in the military. Walz underwent corrective surgery in to improve his condition. But that is wrong. Although Walz served in the Nebraska National Guard then, he was not deployed for that war.

US Election By Sara Swann I Politifact. Published On 18 Oct 18 Oct