Propublica’s Politwoops Archive in Peril — Can It Be Saved?
Fact checkers have long relied on ProPublica’s Politwoops to determine the veracity of tweets.
Fact checkers have long relied on ProPublica’s Politwoops to determine the veracity of tweets.
Sen. Ted Cruz captioned the phony screenshot with “The left is beyond parody.”
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.
A screenshot of a tweet purportedly sent, then deleted by U.S. President Donald Trump — in which he is supposed to have said “it was a TUCK!” — is circulating.
A doctored tweet attributed to Trump purportedly said “it is unbelievable” that President Barack Obama “criticized” him “for the coronavirus response” when Obama “had 8 years to prepair.”
The Democratic Party presidential candidate also made the remark during the debate, deleting a tweet in which he quoted himself.