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Meme Makers Mock Twitter as Site Ramps Up Fact-Checking
Breitbart ^
| 14 Nov 2020
| LUCAS NOLAN
Posted on 11/14/2020 10:49:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As Twitter increases its fact-checking and labeling of posts across its platform, some users have begun mocking the site via parody posts examples. The fake tweets are part of a growing backlash against Twitter censorship that impacts not only President Donald Trump, but the broader conservative movement.
Breitbart News recently reported that Twitter stated this week that it put labels on 300,000 user posts from October 27 to November 11 for violating rules related to election misinformation. Twitter also implemented a retweet feature that required users to add their own comments before retweeting a post on the platform.
Between election day and Friday of this week, Twitter labeled around 34 percent of President Trumps tweets and retweets as disputed. Breitbart News has reported extensively on this, noting recently that 25 of President Trumps posts across Twitter and Facebook were labeled or disputed within 24 hours.
Users were quick to ridicule Twitter by creating fake screenshots of fake fact-checks, implying that Twitter was being overly harsh in its labeling and questioning things that were clearly true.
In one popular example, the platform fact checks Jesus Christ:
In another example making the rounds, Twitter fact checks a Trojan questioning the Greeks gift of a wooden horse:
Breitbart News has compiled some of the best examples of Twitter fact check memes below. Due to the platforms current embed settings, click on each tweet to view the images on the platform.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; factcheck; factchecking; freedomofspeech; freespeech; humor; twitter; waronfreespeech
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
11/14/2020 10:50:30 AM PST
by
griswold3
(Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Folks can have a lot of fun with this.
For example, have posts with:
“How the Biden team won the election” with screenshots of proof of computer cheating.”
“Everyone loves Joe Biden” and then discuss all the Biden-only ballots, etc...
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posted on
11/14/2020 10:51:26 AM PST
by
cgbg
( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
4
posted on
11/14/2020 10:52:12 AM PST
by
georgiegirl
(Count me Deplorable)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Jesus of Nazareth one made me laugh like I haven’t laughed in ten days.
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posted on
11/14/2020 10:56:42 AM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Heh, heh. Love it.
I wish I knew how to do memes. I've got a few rattling around in my brain.
April 19, 1775 Fox News calls Revolutionary War for Great Britain.
Dec. 7, 1941 Fox News calls World War II for Japan
April 1986 Fox News calls The Masters for Greg Norman going into the back nine at Augusta
Passover 33AD Fox News calls The Crucifixion for Satan
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posted on
11/14/2020 10:57:32 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
PERFECT!
Showing the ‘Ministry of Truth’ for the lies they are!
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posted on
11/14/2020 10:57:39 AM PST
by
TianaHighrider
(God bless President Trump)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You post : 2+2=4
Twitter factcheckers: “! This posting is disputed.”
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:01:55 AM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: cgbg
I say overload them with ridiculous crap they'd have to fact check:
1) Mikey the Life Cereal kid died from mixing Pop Rocks and Pepsi!
2) Marilyn Manson is really Josh Saviano from The Wonder Years!
3) If You Play Stairway to Heaven Backwards, Its a Prayer to Satan!
4) You can see a ghost in 3 Men and a Baby!
5) A person hanged themselves during filming of The Wizard of Oz!
6) Paul McCartney is really dead!
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:04:01 AM PST
by
100%FEDUP
(I'm seeing RED!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Same for Facebook and YouTube.
Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:06:16 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; grey_whiskers
Those are great!
Another one I saw (posted by FReeper grey_whiskers at this link, and shown below), is also terrific.
To: 100%FEDUP
“If You Play Stairway to Heaven Backwards, Its a Prayer to Satan!”
Forward too.
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:07:37 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: griswold3
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:09:45 AM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: DoodleBob
Sadly though, there are people who really believe in the “multiple paths to the Father.”
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:18:49 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
To: 100%FEDUP
3) If You Play Stairway to Heaven Backwards, Its a Prayer to Satan
I remember all that! George Carlin once quipped about the Beatles coming out with a new album that if you play it backwards you'll hear a voice saying, "HEY, DUMMY, you're playing this record bckwards!"
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:26:47 AM PST
by
Impala64ssa
(Virtue signalling is no virtue)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
11/14/2020 11:35:04 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: All
It has become quite obvious that these days, any person or group who calls themselves "Fact Checkers" are not interested in presenting the truth, but are "checking" the facts: as in the second definition of
verb (used with object):
2: to restrain; hold in restraint or control.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
11/14/2020 12:09:39 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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