Did Patton Oswalt Tweet ‘I Am a Proud Pedophile’?
Inauthentic tweets and hashtags drove interest in “child trafficking” and led to the unearthing of a purportedly damning tweet from “proud pedophile” Patton Oswalt.
Inauthentic tweets and hashtags drove interest in “child trafficking” and led to the unearthing of a purportedly damning tweet from “proud pedophile” Patton Oswalt.
The claims of a travel warning appeared to get the story out of context.
On first glance, a “shooting target” of a figure holding a mobile phone as if recording looks damning, but there’s a bit more context to the image.
For starters, that picture isn’t Nancy Green — and the “save Aunt Jemima” rant has additional issues.
After the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, a meme recirculated suggesting that Sanders said he would never tell people how to vote (and if he did, not to listen to him.)
In February 2020, a number of social media and blog posts claimed that House Majority Whip James Clyburn “refused to give credit” to United States President Donald Trump for low Black unemployment numbers, because Black Americans were “fully employed during slavery”: In the second post above, a February 19 2020 post on the site Chicks On …
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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders did say breadlines were a “good thing,” but within the context of a binary choice of standing in line for bread or starving to death.
In February 2020 a screenshot of a tweet circulated with the claim that a sizable number of states were suspending licenses for people unable or unwilling to pay back student loans.
Social media posts about a state of emergency declaration in Virginia were not misleading per se, but context helped.
News stories about a veteran’s repossessed legs claimed that various entities disputed payments for the artificial limbs.