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A new Twitter hashtag designed to help fight misinformation against President Obama appears to have backfired in early use on Wednesday. President Obama's Twitter feed, which is run by his campaign staff, on Tuesday evening started promoting the new website AttackWatch.com and hashtag #AttackWatch, designed to fight misinformation against the president. The hashtag was already in heavy rotation by Twitter users by Wednesday morning, but many users are conservatives such as columnist Michelle Malkin, who offered up her own daily column as an example of an Obama "attack."

http://my.barackobama.com/page/signup/o2012-attackwatch-report-an-attack

Attackwatch.com is the Obama campaign's new website to "expose" his political foes by allowing users to "report attacks" on his economic policies. The glossy new website - which features pundits and GOP candidates such as Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Glenn Beck - models sites like Politifact and FactCheck.org, but with a little more spin and a hell of a lot more slant. "President Obama's opponents are still using false claims against him and his record in an attempt to derail our momentum," says the site's copy, as it "clarifies" the President's views on Israel, gun control, immigration, and the...

http://www.attackwatch.com/