This is on point. I'm Magnichok Rabardi. Last month in a public Facebook group called

USA Militia We the People, someone posted, quote, I'm looking for a group of people that see and understand the dire situation

our country is in. A group of people that understand that civil war is at our doorstep if Kamala makes it

into office. Am I in the right place?"

End quote.

Beneath that post, someone responded, quote,

same here brother, we better start getting our bleep together,

end quote.

Well this Facebook group is small, around 160 members.

It only has a few posts, and they're mostly people unsuccessfully trying to link up with others

to do military-style training.

It's also not clear who started this group, but it appears to have been created roughly

three months ago.

USA Militia is among the groups that reporter Tess Owen came across while looking on Facebook

for misinformation, disinformation, and plans for possible violence after the 2024 election.

Tess is a journalist and contributor for Wired,

and she joins us now.

Tess, welcome to Onpoint.

Hi, Magna, thanks so much for having me.

And I also see that just yesterday another Wired article came

out from a colleague of yours saying election fraud conspiracy theories are

already thriving online so you guys are doing quite a bit of reporting on this let's start off with this

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