Right-wing figures are latching on to an outlandish claim that Kamala Harris used a teleprompter to answer audience questions during a Univision town hall Thursday.
Fox News's Sean Hannity, pro-Israel violence-funding billionaire Bill Ackman, and allegedly unwitting Russian propagandist Benny Johnson are among several MAGA pundits and influencers who have begun to claim that Harris must have been using a teleprompter to respond to audience questions, because one was visible on the set of her town hall.
Both Hannity and Ackman have since deleted their posts criticizing Harris -- probably because a little digging quickly revealed the claim to be an obvious lie.
Enrique Acevedo, the town hall's moderator, offered a helpful fact-check of the right-wing claims, given that he was the one actually using the teleprompter.
"The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer," Acevedo wrote late Thursday on X. "Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue."
Daniel Coronell, the president of Univision News, was also quick to shut down the right-wing chatter Thursday evening, resharing one of the conspiratorial posts on X with some crucial context.
"That's not true. The teleprompter that displays a text written in Spanish was a support element for the town hall moderator. I can tell you this with first-hand knowledge because I was in charge of the television program," Coronell wrote.