Did Kamala Harris paralyze a child during a hit-and-run?

The newscast interviews a woman who calls herself Alicia Brown, who claims that she and her mother were not only run over but were also threatened by Harris associates to keep the incident secret for more than a decade.

The video quickly blew up among X-wing conservatives, who questioned whether Harris was intoxicated at the time of the alleged crime.

Harris has faced an unfounded smear campaign from the right in recent weeks focusing on alcohol, accusations that have never been substantiated.

Others called for the politician to be investigated and jailed since Brown had been paralyzed.

But not everyone believed the story. As many began to investigate, it quickly became clear that the accusation was part of an elaborate attempt to create chaos in the middle of the election season.

Many quickly realized that the media outlet that supposedly produced the interview, KBSF-TV, was not real. Analysis of the outlet reveals that its domain was registered just two weeks ago, on August 20, according to GoDaddy. The site is no longer available.

An image used in a video of a car with a broken windshield can be traced using a reverse image search to a legitimate news story about a 2018 car accident in Guam.