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Falsehoods About Ford

In the days after Christine Blasey Ford came forward to describe an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, a series of falsehoods about the woman circulated online, questioning her credibility and motives.

Ford, a California professor, identified herself publicly and told her story in an published in the Sept. 16. Her claim focuses

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