In early September 2024, several accounts on X began sharing a story from the website of an alleged San Francisco television station with the call sign KBSF:
The story claimed that Harris hit two pedestrians with her car in San Francisco — a mother and her young daughter— leaving the child disabled for life:
In June, 2011 Kamala Harris was driving a car when she hit two pedestrians and left the scene of the incident in San Francisco. One of the victims, Alisha Brown, decided to make the story public. She explains that after the accident, Harris's people threatened her mother so that she would not report the incident to the police. It was only after the death of her mother 13 years later Alisha decided to tell this story.
These claims appear to be part of an effort to mislead the public, as KBSF is not a legitimate news outlet. The website was registered on Aug. 20, 2024. There has never been a KBSF television station in San Francisco or anywhere else in the United States. Snopes reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
BBC misinformation reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh argued on X that the KBSF story was "most likely part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation operation" connected to a former Florida cop living in Moscow named John Mark Dougan.
Prior to September 2024, the only notable search results for "KBSF" and "TV" on Google were for content produced for a YouTube channel belonging to the Korea Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (KBSF).
The assertion that Harris committed this 2011 crime is therefore supported only by an anonymous and overtly deceptive website.