You can’t believe everything you see on social media:
Category: Disinformation
A failure of shameful proportions
Jesse Watters went to Penn Charter
One of the best private schools in the country. So I assume he knows better:
SCOOP:
At a signing event for his new book, Fox News host Jesse Watters told a QAnon influencer that he “love[s]” him & follows him online, adding that he does “good work” & has “all this information.”https://t.co/NzOWqkxV39
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) April 29, 2024
We’re not the ones who need to hear this
“Trump claims that crime has surged under Joe Biden’s presidency. That’s false. In 2023, the nationwide violent and property crime rates were lower than any year of Trump’s presidency.”@SteveRattner fact checks Trump on crime, energy, and national debt:pic.twitter.com/MRna37Lk4h https://t.co/uvyMC0kJ4a
— Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 (@ifindkarma) April 24, 2024
Scary
Fun today. Extremely dangerous technology in the near future. pic.twitter.com/uUwS1JlmhI
— Sarah Connor (@collapse2050) April 21, 2024
Marge Green, Putin shill
Moskowitz responds to comments made by Greene: I say this as someone whose grandparents escaped the holocaust… There’s no gas chambers in Ukraine. They’re not railing people in. They’re not trying to erase a people. Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler. You want to talk about… pic.twitter.com/udnHk568eM
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 17, 2024
And yet, people believe the opposite
Homicides are plummeting.
In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.
If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—> pic.twitter.com/gSRsAKtJIZ
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 14, 2024
You have no idea
I have blocked thousands like this. One of their tricks is to start with something harmless, like kitten pictures, and then start adding misinformation:
This is an excellent @AP story about what X has become: A platform chock full of "right-wing pseudonymous influencers who act as alternative information sources" and fill up timelines with false and twisted info https://t.co/YihJ6b0jnt
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 7, 2024
Always, always wrong
Statements from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, 3+ years after throwing a random postmaster’s life into chaos to promote a bogus narrative of mass voter fraud. pic.twitter.com/h5lteirSIo
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) February 6, 2024
The real agenda
This @Nytimes about the anti-DEI attacks draws on emails from conservative activists to show what any honest broker already knows: it is a white supremacist movement trying to restore unquestioned patriarchy. https://t.co/53AsbWdXTK pic.twitter.com/FlZxSr3NRY
— Victor Ray (@victorerikray) January 21, 2024