Amazon Alexa tells users the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen by a massive amount of election fraud’ causing Bezos’ empire to scramble to explain content

Amazon’s Alexa told users that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud” that sent Jeff Bezos’ empire scrambling to explain the content involved.

An investigation by the Washington Post showed that when the devices were asked if the election was stolen, they would post unsubstantiated facts and say that election fraud had occurred.

The Alexa said it was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud,” citing Rumble, a right-wing video streaming site.

Amazon did not say why the machines use information from unattended sources when answering questions posed by users.

Amazon’s Alexa told users that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen by a massive amount of election fraud’ that sent Jeff Bezos’ empire scrambling to explain the content involved

The January 6, 2021 Capitol riot grew out of President Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. The same sentiment fuels threats against local election officials

In another instance, Alexa Substack was quoted as saying that the race is “notorious for many incidents of irregularities and indications that election fraud is occurring in major metro centers.”

Amazon claims to work with “credible sources” such as Reuters, Ballotpedia and RealClearPolitics.

After being informed of the issue, the response the machine gave reportedly changed, the WaPo reports.

Amazon spokeswoman Lauren Raemhild said in a statement: ‘These responses were errors that were delivered a small number of times and were quickly corrected when brought to our attention.

‘We are constantly auditing and improving the systems we have in place to detect and block inaccurate content.’

Polls continue to show that former President Donald Trump has convinced a large portion of Republican voters that President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was illegitimate.

A CNN poll released in August found that 69 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters still believe Biden’s victory was not legitimate — up from 63 percent earlier this year.

Among registered voters who voted for Trump in 2020, the numbers were even higher — with 75 percent expressing doubt that the last election was properly conducted.

Jeff Bezos is the billionaire founder of Amazon – which manufactures the Amazon Alexa

The former president will be indicted for a third time in Washington, DC on Thursday over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and role in the January 6 Capitol riot.

Overall, pollsters found that 38 percent of Americans currently believe the so-called “big lie,” while 61 percent say Biden has legitimately won the 2020 race.

Among the 69 percent of Republican voters who expressed skepticism about the 2020 election, 39 percent said they believed there was hard evidence to prove it was illegal.

The other 30 percent simply said they had a suspicion that something was up.

Another 29 percent of GOP-leaning voters believed Biden’s victory was legitimate.

Special counsel Jack Smith detailed how many people in Trump’s circle expressed to the president that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud — including from the top levels of the Justice Department and the director of national intelligence.

Federal prosecutors will have to show that Trump knew he was lying about election fraud to prove their case.

Immediately after the Capitol attack on January 6, 54 percent of Republican voters said they believed there was evidence to prove that the election was stolen from Trump – the lie the former president told his supporters.

Trump’s Republican rivals in 2024 tend to have it both ways — they have expressed skepticism about how the 2020 election was conducted, but won’t say they believe Trump was the rightful winner.

The new poll showed widespread anxiety about US elections.

Fifty percent of Americans said they felt it was at least somewhat likely that elected officials could successfully overturn the outcome of an election if their party did not win.

The Trump indictment detailed a scheme pursued by the former president, which included pressuring election officials, setting up false Electoral College lists and pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election during the joint session of the Congress on January 6, 2021.

A majority — 58 percent — said they had little or no confidence that elections reflected the will of voters.

Another 42 percent said they had at least some confidence that elections were being conducted properly.

Only 13 percent of respondents said they were “very confident” in US elections – the lowest percentage recorded in CNN polling since 2021.