In the final stretch of the presidential election, social media is buzzing with false claims about voting. Some folks say noncitizens are voting, mail-in ballots are easily tampered with, and voting machines can be hacked. These lies are making people doubt the voting process. Even prominent figures
Molly White, a software engineer and well-known critic of the crypto industry, runs a website called Web3 Is Going Just Great. She recently wrote about the arrest of Roman Ziemian, the founder of crypto trading platform FutureNet. This platform is accused of defrauding people out of $21 million. Whi
In the bustling town of Erie, Pennsylvania, a group of nuns from the Benedictine Sisters of Erie found themselves at the center of a false voter fraud accusation. A Republican canvasser, while going door-to-door, claimed that 53 voters were registered at the monastery's address, but no one lived the
You might have heard that Donald Trump and his followers are worried about noncitizens voting. They've been talking about it behind closed doors in online meetings, but some recordings have leaked. The issue is that proving something isn't happening can be tricky. While it's against the law and not
Election fraud: it's a phrase that's been tossed around a lot lately, but is it really something to worry about? Let's take a closer look. The Heritage Foundation, a group that supports former President Trump, has been saying that election fraud is common. They've counted 1, 561 cases over 36 years.
As the 2024 U. S. presidential election approaches, political parties and activist groups are locked in a flurry of lawsuits across seven crucial states. The focus? Voting laws and procedures that could potentially alter the outcome. Both Republicans and Democrats have filed nearly 100 suits, with R
A big secret about former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims came out last week. A judge in Washington, D. C. , made public almost 2, 000 pages of evidence from the case. This evidence shows that back in 2020, William Barr, who was Trump's lawyer at the time, told Trump his ideas about v
Imagine stealing money meant for government work to fund luxurious vacations. That's what Chantelle Boyd and Thomas Bouchard did. Boyd, a Maryland woman, was sentenced for conspiring to defraud the government out of thousands of dollars. Her boyfriend, Bouchard, hired her for a "no-show" job at the
You know how banks use AI to catch fraud? Well, Uncle Sam is doing the same thing! The US Treasury Department just used AI to catch $1 billion in check fraud alone last year. That's huge! And it's not just checks. They stopped over $4 billion in fraud overall. How? By using machine learning to dig t
In Alabama, a man named Eric Council Jr. was recently arrested for his role in a hacking scheme that sent the bitcoin market into a rollercoaster ride. The Justice Department revealed that Council and his accomplices hacked into the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) account on the X platfor
