On October 28, 2024, the CTVBY channel aired a report on the American election campaign. The video garnered over a million views.
The election fever is heating up in the U.S. The presidential race is surrounded by new scandals. One of them involves the media. Publishers have banned two influential newspapers, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, from supporting political campaigns. This has happened for the first time in 36 years. Traditionally, the press has unofficially supported the Democrats, represented this year by Kamala Harris. According to journalists themselves, such a ban doesn’t bode well. It likely indicates serious problems in the campaign. One of Harris’s recent rallies in Michigan ended unsuccessfully, interrupted by chants of “Stop the war.”
Our verdict based on understanding the complexity of the issue and conducted analyses:
Verdict: Incorrect
Reason:
- The thesis or claim is entirely false: information from multiple sources or opinions from several experts in the field contradict it.
- Essential parts of a quote are omitted, rearranged, altered, or misinterpreted from a foreign language, fundamentally changing its meaning.
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We will analyze disinformation narratives and conduct semantic analysis.
The video claims that Kamala Harris’s campaign is struggling due to a media ban on support, highlighting failures in her election efforts.
Use of authoritative sources
Emotional framing
Creating a sense of crisis
Mention of the ban on support by major newspapers creates a narrative of crisis in media and political support.
Emphasizing the rarity of the event
Providing context
Use of rhetorical questions
Mention of Harris’s unsuccessful rally, interrupted by chants of “Stop the war,” emphasizes her weak voter support.
Visualizing negative experience
Creating an image of failure
Emotional manipulation
The video creates a negative image of Kamala Harris’s campaign by using manipulative techniques and emotional framing, potentially influencing audience perception.
Political struggle
Media influence
Kamala Harris
Election scandals
Negative
Anxiety
Disappointment