Siri Glitch Refers To Kamala Harris as President
The Claim
Since Siri referred to Kamala Harris as president, that means that Democrats plan to invoke the 25th Amendment to make her president.
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Emerging story
In a video originally posted on Facebook by Darin Southam on November 9, 2020, iPhone users asked Siri “how old is the President?” Siri responded with “Kamala Harris was born 56 years ago, on Tuesday, October 20, 1964.”
The original post claims that this is “CONFIRMATION of the Democrats' sinister plan to REMOVE Sleepy Joe immediately using the 25th Amendment and instate Kamala Harris as President!”
People were quick to try this with Siri on their own iPhones, receiving a similar answer that Kamala Harris was the current President.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s investigation has found no evidence that Democrats are planning on replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris as President by using the 25th Amendment. The false information given by Siri was merely a glitch from Wolfram Alpha, a computational intelligence engine that Siri uses to gather data.
Wolfram Alpha has since acknowledged the glitch, tweeting, “The brief issue affecting data on Wolfram|Alpha about the US presidential election has now been corrected. A bug in a new update process for handling uncertain/projected results caused garbled data to go live. We thank everyone for so promptly pointing out the problem.”
The claim that the Democrats plan to replace Biden with Harris stems from a tweet from Donald Trump on October 9, 2020 claiming: "Crazy Nancy Pelosi is looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris."
The 25th Amendment states that the Vice President will become President if the President is unable to do his or her job.
This story feeds further into the narrative that Trump has been trying to push during his campaign, claiming that Biden’s cognitive ability is declining.
