Americans will be heading to the polling stations this week for the crucial midterm elections - and there is a lot at stake. The biyearly votes, which get their name because they fall in the middle of a President's four-year term in the White House, are to determine who sits in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Democrats currently hold both chambers of Congress, where nationwide laws are made, but are expected to lose the House and face an incredibly tight battle for the Senate, according to the latest polls. A number of lies and misleading claims are being spread across the internet - with many arguing that Tuesday's vote will be a test of the fidelity of the election system.
Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump has been very involved in campaigning ahead of the midterms - and has claimed America's safety and security are on the line.
His victory in Pennsylvania helped deliver him the White House in 2016, and now he's back in the critical swing state to get more Replublican votes.
In the small town of Latrobe, Trump warned that continued Democratic control in Washington would lead to more crime and unfettered immigration.
"If you want safety and security for your family, you need to vote every single Democrat out of office," he said.
"There's only one choice - if you support the decline and fall of America then you must vote for the radical Democrats. If you want to stop the destruction of our country then you must vote Republican in a giant red wave."
But what's most concerning of all is that Trump has been casting doubt on the legitimacy of the midterms in Pennsylvania on his TruthSocial platform.
Sharing an article from a right-wing news site that haphazardly raised suspicion about absentee-ballot data with no real evidence, he wrote: "Here we go again! Rigged Election!"
Ever since losing the 2020 election, Trump has tried to push the baseless argument that the election result was manipulated and he was the actual winner.
Vote counting time
Some Republicans are promoting baseless allegations of fraud in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's acting elections chief, Leigh Chapman, told NBC News that it could take "days" to complete the vote count.
This didn't sit well with Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, a false conspiracy theory backer, who said: "That's an attempt to have the fix in."
Ironically, it takes longer as the Republican-controlled state legislature has refused to pass a no-strings-attached bill to allow counties to begin processing mail-in ballots earlier than Election Day morning.
Senator Ted Cruz also wrote: "Why is it only Democrat blue cities that take 'days' to count their votes? The rest of the country manages to get it done on election night."
It's a claim that isn't true, as many counties across the country don't finish their vote counts on election night, including many of the strongest Republican states.
The other point is that large cities tend to lean towards the Democrats and have far more votes to count than in the Republican-leaning small, rural counties.
Fake Obama video
Former President Barack Obama has been back on the campaign trail in Detroit - and someone has falsified a video that has been viewed two million times.
In the manipulated clip, the crowd allegedly cuts off Mr Obama and starts chanting "f*** Joe Biden".
However, the former President was actually interrupted by a heckler while he was speaking about House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband.
In reality, there were no anti-Biden chants and the crowd had in fact started chanting Obama's name.
Fake Republican campaign pledges
The Republican campaign pledges for the midterms were launched with the slogan 'Commitment to America'.
House of Representatives minority leader Kevin McCarthy was in the campaign video, promising to reduce violent crime, gas prices and hold politicians to account.
However, opponents are sharing fake versions of the Republican campaign pledges online, including false claims to cut Social Security benefits, raise the eligibility age for Medicare and tax veterans.
Dr Oz memes
A number of Republicans have found themselves becoming the victim of fake photos that have gone viral.
One of those is Doctor Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate in the tight Pennsylvania Senate race, who has been included in a number of doctored memes.
One claimed to show voters telling him to his face they didn't want to vote for him, while another showed a house with a sideways down campaign sign so it looked like it read "no".
Exactly the same snap can be found on the website of a real estate company without the Dr Oz campaign signs - and the person who created the meme told the BBC it was done as a joke and should not be taken seriously.
2,000 mules film
Right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza has claimed he has uncovered widespread voter fraud operating across several swing states in the 2020 election.
In his '2,000 mules' film, a map claims to have used geolocation data to show an individual had visited multiple voting drop boxes in a single day in Georgia.
It's been promoted by multiple Republicans and has had millions of interactions on social media, but the drop box locations shown in the video do not match up with the same locations on a map.
Evidence from the independent Georgia Bureau of Investigation revealed that being within as much as 100ft of a drop box was counted as having visited one.
One person who was revealed to be legally dropping off ballots for family members is suing the film's creators for defamation.
Arizona results
A week ago, an Arizona TV news channel appeared to publish the election results.
Fox 10 Phoenix broadcast a mock graphic that indicated Democrat candidate Katie Hobbs had beaten Republican Kari Lake.
Some people claimed this was evidence of election fraud, but the new outlet explained the graphic template displayed randomly-generated numbers and was accidentally sent out.
"This graphic was never meant to go on air — the numbers were only part of a test," they wrote on the station's Twitter account. "[We] have taken steps to make sure this cannot happen again."
A spokesperson for the Associated Press confirmed that they had provided randomly-generated numbers as part of routine testing ahead of election days.
They said: "The data is randomly generated by a computer and is not based on any predictive analysis or polling."
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