Twitter’s Community Notes is the best thing to happen on the social media platform since its inception, and maybe it’s catching on.
Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells a lot of whoppers every day, but yesterday one was too big for even the White House transcript person to ignore. This is a heck of a correction:
Yesterday, Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the Republican budget proposal would "increase the disability claims backlog by an estimated 134 billion."
According to the White House’s official transcript, she meant thousands… pic.twitter.com/TJ20Uriv5I
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 4, 2023
That claim was so far off base that even the Biden White House couldn’t let it slide.
Looking like Community Notes needs to start checking KJP now.🤣
— Ughlyduck (@ughlyduc) May 4, 2023
@Twitter should assign one person to fact check Miss Pinocchio on a full time basis.
— Pete🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@usafss74) May 4, 2023
It might even take more than one person.
Since she just reads whatever is put in front of her, it seems these “typos” are a deliberate, dishonest attempt to get incorrectly alarmist information out to the public. The subsequent corrections are buried. https://t.co/4DiKf1LMtP
— fair elections matter (@dmurphy910) May 4, 2023
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The media does that all the time: Put out a BS story that goes viral and then do a walk-back (if at all) that gets a fraction of the attention.
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