That 90% voter fraud stat my cousin shared got 2k shares, but the source was a meme

My cousin sent me this screenshot last month claiming 90% of mail-in ballots in Phoenix were fraudulent. It had 2,000 shares on Facebook and people were losing it in the comments. I looked up the actual county report and the number was 0.003% of ballots had issues, and those were just signature mismatches, not fraud. I called him out politely and he said the meme felt more true than the official data. That stuck with me because we trust share counts over primary sources, and that's backwards. The platform boosts outrage, not accuracy, so viral stats usually mean the opposite of what they seem. Has anyone else had a relative double down on a stat that fell apart in 5 minutes of checking the source?

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