USA: Fake news about Kamala Harris being involved in a car accident with a 13-year-old

On USAa report published on an unidentified website, has gone viral in recent hours on social media, following an unfounded claim that the presidential candidate with the Democrats, Kamala Harriswas involved in one car accident earlier.

In particular, without citing data, the said site claims that a 13-year-old girl was left paralyzed by the collision, which took place in San Francisco in 2011.

In recent days this rumor has been shared and viewed by millions of internet users, mainly of right-wing persuasion, however, as the BBC notes, a lot of false information has been found surrounding the news, which has resulted in the website “crashing”.

What is the claim?

Included in the article is a 5-minute video interview with a 26-year-old woman named Alicia Brown, who claims she was “paralyzed” after the incident.

In reality, however, there is no evidence to confirm her identity or paralysis, as she is filmed sitting from the waist up in an unknown location.

In the video, she claims she was hit by a car while crossing the street with her mother in June 2011 in San Francisco, insisting that the person who did it to her was Kamala Harris.

Then, another “voice” in the video states that this woman underwent a total of 11 surgeries, without, however, presenting a single piece of evidence to prove that Harris was involved in the incident.

Because the article is fake

After a relevant BBC investigation into the website’s registration details, it was revealed that the domain address was only set up within the last few weeks, namely on August 20th.

There also doesn’t appear to be any public record of its existence as a newsgroup anywhere in San Francisco, so it has “fallen” and is no longer accessible to users.

As you can see, the main photo of the article is a close-up shot through the windshield of a broken car, with members of the Police and Fire Department standing nearby. The agencies “downloaded” this photo and found that it was originally used in 2018 on another car in the toy Mangilao area in the eastern US.