A TikTok creator says he made a fake voter fraud video that went viral and was shared by Rudy Giuliani

• As President Donald Trump continues to baselessly allege that he lost the election to President-elect Joe Biden due to voter fraud, videos falsely purporting to show voter fraud keep going viral.
• Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, retweeted one such video on Tuesday that a TikToker said on Facebook was made in jest.
• The video, which shows a man claiming to rip up a ballot for "Donald J. Dumb Trump," is going viral on several platforms.

President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani and right-wing influencers shared a TikTok video as evidence of voter fraud, but the video was created as a joke by a prankster, the TikToker said.

The viral video was first posted on TikTok by the user @bigchoppadoe last week. In the clip, a man wearing a neon yellow vest rips up what he says is a ballot for "Donald J. Dumb Trump." The words "Send viral" with a laughing emoji are laid over the video. The original video has since been made private on TikTok, but screen recordings of the clips continue to circulate on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, Insider found on Tuesday.

The TikTok user was identified by Heavy and Reuters as Dale Harrison, whose Facebook page has pictures that match his identity in the video. Harrison, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, made his TikTok account private, but the video is still circulating via screen-recordings.

On Monday, Harrison wrote on Facebook that he made the video because he is "always joking" and said he wore his uniform from his job at Amazon. Other pictures posted by Harrison on Facebook appear to show him working in an Amazon warehouse.

Giuliani, who is leading President Donald Trump's baseless search for evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, appeared to believe the video was evidence of foul play. He retweeted a version of the video shared by actress and producer Kaya Jones, that was quote-tweeted by radio host David Webb. Jones' tweet was later appended with a label from Twitter, warning that the "claim about election fraud had been disputed."

As of Tuesday evening, the tweet that Giuliani retweeted — Webb's quote tweet — has been deleted. But the original version of the video retweeted by Giuliani, who has 995,000 Twitter followers, has more than 168,000 views as of Tuesday evening, 14 hours after it was posted.

It was not Giuliani's first time being pranked in recent history. Just a few weeks ago, the "Borat" sequel depicted Trump's personal lawyer being tricked into an interview by actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova.

Tito Ortiz, a conservative influencer with 340,000 followers on his verified Instagram page, posted the video on Instagram on Monday. "The integrity of this country has been compromised! The truth will set us Free," he said in the post's caption.

Tomi Lahren, a conservative commentator, commented, "Disgusting." Steve Chavez Lodge, a conservative Instagrammer is mostly known for his relationship with a "Real Housewives of Orange County" star, also weighed in. "Unfortunately, I think this is probably the norm and not unusual other than him filming himself," Lodge said.

Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, labeled the post as "False Information" and is leading readers to a Reuters fact-check of the video. Ortiz's post alone had nearly 200,000 views as of Tuesday afternoon, less than one day after he posted it.

The TikTok video is one of many phony clips going viral within right-wing social media circles, as supporters of President Trump allege that President-elect Joe Biden won the election through fraudulent means.

Many influential figures in Trump's orbit, including Giuliani and his sons, Eric and Donald Jr., have spread similar fake claims. On Wednesday, Eric Trump retweeted a video that purported to show the burning of 80 ballots in Virginia Beach, but election officials said the now-deleted video was fake, CNN reported.

This article has been updated to show that the tweet Giuliani retweeted was deleted on Tuesday evening and that Twitter added a label to the video to show that it had been "disputed."

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