Trump Shares Fake Story from Satire Website to Criticize Twitter
Nick Wass / Associated Press
We ran the numbers: There are 2697 news articles covering this topic. 43% (1159) are left leaning, 43% (1148) are center, and 14% (390) are right leaning.
On Friday, President Trump tweeted out a fake story from a satirical website attacking Twitter, with commentary that suggests he was not aware that the piece was satire. While left-leaning articles highlight that Twitter’s CEO said it was wrong for Twitter to block web links to an unverified political story, right-leaning articles highlight that Steve Scully, the political editor of C-SPAN, lied about being hacked to hide a message to an anti-Trumper.
A left-leaning article by The Los Angeles Times highlights that Twitter’s CEO said it was wrong for Twitter to block web links to an unverified political story about Hunter Biden. Both Twitter and Facebook moved quickly this week to limit the spread of the story published by the conservative-leaning New York Post.
The Hill published a centrist article reporting that the president shared a link from conservative satire website Baylon Bee, which wrote a story that Twitter crashed to slow the spread of negative news stories about Biden. Trump tweeted the story, commenting, “Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big T.”
The New York Post published a right-leaning article highlighting that Steve Scully, the political editor of C-SPAN, lied about being hacked to hide a message to an anti-Trumper. The article highlights that there is also a social-media effort to keep voters from learning the truth about Joe Biden’s involvement with his son Hunter’s business schemes.
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Twitter CEO says it was wrong to block links to Hunter Biden story
The Los Angeles Times