{"id":17751,"date":"2025-02-14T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/musk-linked-group-offered-5m-for-proof-of-voter-fraud-and-came-up-with-nothing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:38:52","slug":"musk-linked-group-offered-5m-for-proof-of-voter-fraud-and-came-up-with-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/musk-linked-group-offered-5m-for-proof-of-voter-fraud-and-came-up-with-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk-linked group offered $5m for proof of voter fraud \u2013 and came up with nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Election Fund has yet to reveal evidence of voter fraud despite deep-pocketed backers \u2013 and has now gone silent<\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FairElectFund\/status\/1786781178886033519\">flashy ad<\/a> went viral on social media warning that \u201cacross the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FairElectFund\/status\/1786781178886033519\">The ad<\/a> pledged that \u201cwhistleblowers\u201d who shared evidence of election fraud \u201cwill be rewarded with payment from our $5m fund\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This reward was courtesy of a just-announced group, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefairelectionfund.com\/\">Fair Election Fund<\/a>, which has deep connections to Elon Musk\u2019s political network, according to materials obtained by Documented.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was produced in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/documented.net\/\">Documented<\/a>, an investigative watchdog and journalism project. Brendan Fischer is deputy executive director and Emma Steiner is a researcher with Documented<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/14\/elon-musk-voter-fraud-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6814b5775911bdd953153b269da8ce8082842c02\/0_156_5457_3276\/master\/5457.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=82bb8a20c8e5a925a47bb161bf9c9cb6\" title=\"Musk-linked group offered $5m for proof of voter fraud \u2013 and came up with nothing\" \/>Fair Election Fund has yet to reveal evidence of voter fraud despite deep-pocketed backers \u2013 and has now gone silent<br \/>\nIn May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that \u201cacross the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust\u201d. The ad pledged that \u201cwhistleblowers\u201d who shared evidence of election fraud \u201cwill be rewarded with payment from our $5m fund\u201d.<br \/>\nThis reward was courtesy of a just-announced group, the Fair Election Fund, which has deep connections to Elon Musk\u2019s political network, according to materials obtained by Documented.<br \/>\nThis article was produced in partnership with Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project. Brendan Fischer is deputy executive director and Emma Steiner is a researcher with Documented Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Election Fund has yet to reveal evidence of voter fraud despite deep-pocketed backers \u2013 and has now gone silent In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that \u201cacross the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust\u201d. The ad &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/musk-linked-group-offered-5m-for-proof-of-voter-fraud-and-came-up-with-nothing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk-linked group offered $5m for proof of voter fraud \u2013 and came up with nothing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}