Former member of the military trolls the right. Tweets false details regarding Presidents attending military funerals, tweet is picked up by the right blogosphere and reported as fact.
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The Kenyan Socialist Usurper might not attend military funerals, but thank God there are some patriots who never miss one.Report
*Yawn*Report
225+ retweets? Got into actual press without folks actually fact checking.
*tip of the hat*Report
Do we get to claim that those aren’t influential, relevant, or mainstream right-wing publications? Or do we only get to do that when it’s left-wing people who did something stupid?Report
Yes, but only if you can pull some stats.
I may really dislike “MoveOn” (this came up with the whole Betray-Us thingy)… but they are a pretty big group of people. (influential/relevant/mainstream? maybe not…)Report
Sure.
The specific telling point to me wasn’t that the Right-o-sphere seized upon some data point that reinforced their narrative and republished it without fact-checking, it’s more of “it’s pretty easy for this to happen very quickly” (see also: the story about cheese boards).
Notable, though, is that The Washington Examiner is sort of actually a thing, part of the same media empire that controls The Weekly Standard, and Byron is their political reporter, and he fessed up, “I played a role in that. On Saturday morning, I tweeted, without comment, a link to the original Legal Insurrection article.”
This is where the line between reporters (and editors) on one side and reporters (and social media) on the other gets really blurry.Report