Especially when the lie is so egregious.
Director of ‘2000 Mules’ Acknowledges the Conspiratorial Film Was Flawed
The director, Dinesh D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, admitted that an analysis used to make claims about election fraud that were later debunked had been faulty.
More than two years after the widely debunked film “2000 Mules” poured gasoline on right-wing conspiracy theories about election fraud, the documentary’s writer and director, Dinesh D’Souza, has acknowledged that its findings were based on a faulty analysis.
Mr. D’Souza said in a statement on his website that the analysis used in the film, which claimed to depict a vast ring of “mules” illegally gathering large numbers of ballots and surreptitiously placing them in drop boxes, was incorrect.
The film’s premise was based on matching surveillance videos from drop-box locations with geolocated cellphone data that appeared to show repeated trips to areas near drop boxes during the 2020 election.
“We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data,” Mr. D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, said in the statement, which he released on Nov. 26.
The director, Dinesh D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, admitted that an analysis used to make claims about election fraud that were later debunked had been faulty.
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Factual accuracy was never the point anyway. Telling the lie was. Getting the rubes on board with Baby Donald's national pity party of fake grievance to sooth his fragile ego, and anger The Following, was the goal. It worked like a charm. They still believe it. It is trumpworld's essential alternative reality.