Dinesh D’Souza Says '2000 Mules' Conspiracy Film Relied On ‘Inaccurate’ Data

D’Souza said he “operated in good faith,” but would have edited the conspiracy film differently if he knew the true nature of cell phone data.

Dinesh D’Souza — the conservative filmmaker behind the widely debunked conspiracy film “2000 Mules” — apologized to a Georgia man accused of ballot fraud during the 2020 election and admitted the documentary relied on “inaccurate information.”

The film, released in 2022, became a rallying cry for many conservatives for years, who claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 race was stolen from Donald Trump. Trump himself praised the film, which pointed to cellphone location data filmmakers said suggested ballot “mules” were paid to illegally collect and drop off ballots in key swing states that voted for Joe Biden during that race.

Experts and election official from both parties quickly debunked those claims, but D’Souza vehemently defended his work for years. But he issued a mea culpa over the weekend saying he had recently learned the cell phone evidence didn’t support the “mule” theory.

“We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data,” D’Souza said.

“I know that the film and my book create the impression that these individuals were mules that had been identified as suspected ballot harvesters … ” he went on. “While all of these individuals’ images were blurred and unrecognizable, one of the individuals has since come forward publicly and has initiated a lawsuit over the use of his blurred image in the film and the book. I owe this individual, Mark Andrews, an apology.”