MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin’s tweet yesterday about the supposed hacking of a state election website got retweeted over 6,500 times:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1033779861364428800
Wow, that’s some story! However, it’s not true, as Griffin noted about six hours later:
It’s been brought to my attention that this Politico article has been debunked. Read the debunking here from ProPublica: https://t.co/NeXxdMF3hv
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 27, 2018
And as usual, guess which one got retweeted a whole lot more.
5.5k retweets for the original false post. https://t.co/jxf6pj3kWz
— Darin Lloyd (@db_lloyd) August 27, 2018
160 RT. Original Tweet with 5K RT still up.
No idea why no one trusts NBC News. No idea. https://t.co/EEm93B1dcB
— Nathan, son of Robert (@NathanWurtzel) August 27, 2018
According to NBC News’ Chuck Todd, Fox News is the reason people distrust the media.
Producer of a NBC/MSNBC news show has to have it brought to his attention instead of checking the facts to begin with. https://t.co/pk3S9vGMWz
— Kris Kinder (@kris_kinder) August 27, 2018
Um, yeah, good point!
you should delete the initial tweet…
— Maddie (@madbev14) August 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/JuanFoolery/status/1034057811527958528
https://twitter.com/EF517_V3/status/1034054024335699968
How many people believed this? How many of them will ever see this 'retraction'? https://t.co/mrsHybeqAA
— Slicin' Hammer ⚠️ (@dougayoung) August 27, 2018
If you read the Politico article now, it contains this correction way at the bottom and the nature of the story has changed quite a bit:
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