On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted a link to a story titled “Twitter Shuts Down the Entire Network to Slow down the Spread of Negative News” from Babylon Bee, a satirical news site, without Trump realizing it was real, unfounded fake news. In fact.
After sharing the link, Trump said, “Wow, this has never been done in history. That was your very bad interview last night, why is Twitter doing this?Attract more attention to Sleepy Joe and Big T. “
Babylon Bee describes himself as “the satirical site of the world” and his official Twitter banner reads: “Fake news you can trust. “
Last week, the media published an article with the headline “Trump fills the coronavirus and mounts it on its wall. “
The story Trump shared Friday is similar to the Twitter outage the day before, claiming the site collapsed because Twitter employees, disappointed that Democrats received a negative press about a New York Post article about Hunter Biden, turned and smashed their computers with hammers.
More than 4 hours after the initial tweet sent, the president has not yet deleted his message.
On Tuesday, Trump retwated an article detailing an unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory that “Biden and Obama possibly killed Seal Team 6” and that bin Laden would possibly still be alive because the guy killed in the raid was twice bin Laden’s body. The article Trump shared was written through Kari Donovan, who identifies as a “former network organizer” who is now “a home-educated mother in North Carolina. “Donovan tweeted that “he had no evidence that the whistleblower’s claims are true. “Later that day, Trump once again promoted conspiracy theory, sharing a tweet from a separate account connected to QAnon. During Thursday at NBC News City Hall, Trump refused to report QAnon. In the face of promoting unfounded conspiracy theories on Twitter, Trump defended himself by saying, “I do a lot of retweets. ArrayArrayArray I’ll put it there. People can on their own. “
“I don’t get it. You’re the president. He’s not like the crazy guy who retwites anything,” NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie told Trump Thursday night.
On Friday morning, “Big T” began to trend on Twitter. Two hours after his first post on Bathroughlon Bee on Friday morning, Trump tried to deflect guilt by tweeting: “Big T was not a reference to me, yet to Big Tech, which deserve to have been well pointed out in Twitter’s fake trend segment. “
18. This is the number of days until November 3rd, Election Day.
Trump promotes the theory of baseless conspiracy through QAnon, alleging that Obama organized the murder of bin Laden (Forbes)
Trump denounces white supremacy, but QAnon (Forbes)
Trump satirically retwums about Joe Biden and Twitter (USAT)
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