I remember seeing a 4chan screenshot right before the 2020 election, I'd guess about 2 weeks before election night, the person was claiming to be an "insider" whatever that means, and they were claiming that on election night, all the news anchors were going to keep repeating the phrase "red mirage", and that they'd keep counting votes until Trump lost, however long that takes. I was not convinced for a ton of reasons, after all this is 4chan, the site full of Q conspiracies and racists and LARPs and other assorted bullshit. At the very least, if the person were telling the truth, then the cat is out of the bag and they can't go through with it.
I remember watching that anchor who's dad was a famous anchor, I forget his name, on Fox news that night say the phrase "red mirage". They counted votes for 3 days after that.
> If the rumor was found to be false — and it usually was — corrections were rarely made and even then, little noticed.
This is rich coming from an MSM rag, doubly so for NYT.