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Amazon's Alexa fumbles its facts by falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen::Alexa cited Rumble to claim the 2020 election was "stolen by a massive amount of election fraud," The Washington Post reported.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s still doing it right now.

Try it for yourself: “Alexa, were the 2020 election results fraudulent?”

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have to have an always listening Amazon device in my house to try, and that's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You can install Alexa as an app on your phone. But that still requires an Amazon account and that’s ridiculous.