Does a viral post prove that 84% of electronic devices spotted at the joint Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rally in Colorado can be definitively linked to Kamala Harris campaign events and protests for other causes? No, that's not true: The post doesn't offer a replicable analysis of the data. The post does not offer links to the raw data or data sources.
The claim originated from a post (archived here) published on X on March 23, 2025. It opened:
GPS--Here we go again, there were 20,189 devices. Still a large crowd but not even close to the 30,000 quoted in Denver newspapers nor the 34,000 quoted by Bernie Sanders and AOC.
84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Mon Mar 24 20:21:45 2025 UTC)
The entry referred to the rally with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that attracted thousands of attendees in Colorado on March 21, 2025 (archived here).
The post, however, failed to provide any publicly available datasets allowing readers to test the claims by replicating the purported analysis of mobile phone location data, user data or the "6,000" databases in which the post claims user data was found.
Tony Seruga is known for making unsubstantiated claims based on cellphone tracking data he claims to have access to (archived here).
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