The Gateway Pundit, currently being sued over false election claims, has doubled down on conspiracy theories about the presidential election, according to a new analysis. Meanwhile, white supremacists continue to flee Telegram, the communications platform, after its founder and CEO were arrested in France last month. And a report claims TikTok is sowing racist tropes about Haitian immigrants to millions of people.

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Nadine Seiler demonstrates outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse before Former President Donald Trump arrives to be arraigned on four charges related to the 2020 election. Federal allegations are accusing the Trump of undermining American democracy by organizing a wide-ranging conspiracy to steal the 2020 election that allege fueled a brazen and historic insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Gateway Pundit still spreading election falsehoods
A new report from analysis Advance Democracy, Inc., provided exclusively to USA TODAY, finds that the conservative news website the Gateway Pundit has doubled down in its spreading of false claims about the presidential election. That’s despite the site facing two lawsuits over false claims about the 2020 election.

ADI found that from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 the Gateway Pundit published at least 128 articles containing keywords about fraud or election workers. The articles focused on tropes including that the Democratic party is working with election officials to steal the 2024 presidential election and is allowing non-citizens to vote. Examples included articles with headlines like “PAY ATTENTION: Democrats Just Revealed How They Will Steal the 2024 Election — In Three Easy Steps.”
The website is currently facing a defamation suit filed by a former voting software executive, who accuses the campaign of former president Donald Trump and multiple conservative media outlets of spreading “false and baseless claims.”

The site was also sued in 2021 by two election workers, who claim the site and its owners “knowingly published false stories about them that instigated a relentless campaign of harassment and threats.”
The claims made in recent stories often lead to threats of violence, ADI found. The analyzed monitored responses to the articles after they were posted on the site and on social media and found calls for civil war and calls for violence against Democratic lawmakers and election workers.