When prominent conservative Ali Alexander went viral exposing Kamala Harris‘s lies about her ties to the history of African-American suffering, the media tried to counter the story with a conspiracy theory.

Enter Russia–obsessed conspiracy theorist Caroline Orr.

Orr tweeted a baseless conspiracy theory: “A lot of suspect accounts are pushing the ‘Kamala Harris is not Black’ narrative tonight. It’s everywhere and it has all the signs of being a coordinated/artificial operation.”

A lot of suspect accounts are pushing the “Kamala Harris is not Black” narrative tonight. It’s everywhere and it has all the signs of being a coordinated/artificial operation. #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/DTeB2qWJnm — Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 28, 2019

Based on Orr’s tweet, far left bloggers at Vox, The Hill, the NY Times, and many other websites wrote stories with reporting like this:

“Within minutes of the original tweet about Harris’ background being sent, a network of bot accounts associated with trolls began to spread the message across Twitter,” – Vox.

Twitter has debunked Orr’s conspiracy theory, with even far left activists at CNN being forced to report that the accounts calling out Kamala Harris were not bots.

Looks like Mueller conspiracy nut @RVAwonk lied. I’ll be asking for corrections.



There was no bot net attack on Kamala Harris.



I quoted her and her history. @DonaldJTrumpJr quote retweeted and innocently asked if it was true.



People stole my content and it’s still going viral. pic.twitter.com/TFx9clWpw3 — Ali Alexander (@ali) June 30, 2019

Here are some of the mainstream media outlets that ran with Orr’s wild conspiracy theory as news.