Far-right social media accounts and users with a reputation for promoting QAnon spread a baseless conspiracy theory on social media that Joe Biden was wearing a wire during the debate
Far-right social media accounts and users with a reputation for promoting QAnon spread a baseless conspiracy theory on social media early Wednesday that Joe Biden was wearing a wire—and social media companies, including Twitter, which said it would provide “context” to its trends following the debate—left the theory to disseminate widely unchecked.
The shoddy quality of the viral video made it look like Biden covered a black wire with his jacket lapel But high definition footage of the moment during the debate shows the line was a crease in Biden’s shirt—not a black wire The distorted clip was picked up by conservative actor James Woods, who has a history of promoting conspiracy theories and a large following online, helping it to go viral on Twitter.
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