🧩 BND Motif Index · M794
Election meddling
A foreign power is said to interfere in another country's elections, through propaganda channels, money or hacked votes, to put its own side in.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Elections🗂️ Political manipulation
- 11claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
- 2fact-checkers
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Foreign meddling
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Rigged election
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Brazil police raid suspected Trump election interference operation 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-06
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Trump accused the Ukrainian Government of meddling in the midterm elections by bombing bot farms in Russia.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-21 “The Trump regime is working to interfere in elections to install puppet dictators.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-15 “Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum to weaken the EU.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “Russia attempted to interfere in the Brexit referendum to achieve its own hostile ends.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “Foreign adversaries have access to vital parts of voting machines to change votes.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-11 “Trump's actions regarding the 2016 election involved senior campaign advisors working with Russian oligarchs.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) - 2026-10-08 “The Trump administration is actively interfering in the Brazilian election to ensure Lula da Silva loses.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-08 “The U.S. government interfered in the Brazilian election to unseat Lula da Silva.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-06 “The Trump regime is attempting to install authoritarian puppet regimes across South America using agents like an agent.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-06 “The Trump regime uses political operatives to prop up handpicked dictators in South America who have links to narco-trafficking.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-09-15 “Russia Boosts the German Far Right — Again” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
M794 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works