Did "White Hats" stop "three busses" full of "Harris supporters" who had voted in New York, then boarded a bus to vote again in Pennsylvania, with 150 of these people detained? No, that's not true: This claim was made from an account connected to a website with a disclaimer that it publishes made-up content. A search on Google News brought up no articles mentioning any event involving three busses or "White Hats".
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X on November 5, 2024. It said:
White Hats stopped THREE busses of Harris supporters in NYC who VOTED in NY and then boarded a bus to vote again in PA. 150 people in all detained.
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(Source: X screenshot taken Wed Nov 6 14:23:03 2024 UTC)
As defined by the Anti-Defamation League, conspiracy theorists use the term "white hats" to describe "government and military officials" who support former President Donald Trump and right-wing ideologies and "black hats" to describe Democrats who oppose them by purportedly being supporters of the "Deep State."
Lead Stories did a search (archived here) for recent credible news reports mentioning "White Hats" and "THREE busses" in combination with either New York or Pennsylvania on Google News. It did not produce any such reports confirming this claim.
Real Raw News
The post is from the account of Real Raw News. That site has a long history of publishing false claims in mock news stories, many of them about convictions and executions of various public figures at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. For example, the site reported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hanged (she wasn't); former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta was executed (he wasn't); and "the military" convicted former Attorney General William Barr on charges of treason (it didn't).
The website for Real Raw News includes a disclaimer that declares the site does not stand by the contents of the stories, calling them entertainment. Specifically, it says:
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(Source: RealRawNews.com screenshot taken Tue Aug 3 16:39:48 UTC 2021)
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