This tweet from NBC News’ Peter Alexander on a hearing today to discuss the tender-age children separated from their parents at the border is blowing up tonight with tons of blue-checks retweeting it as if it’s gospel. Spoiler, it’s not:
JUST IN: Federal judge agrees to delay next meeting about extending deadline to reunite 101 children under the age of 5 until Monday because Trump administration lawyer has “dog sitting responsibilities” this weekend.@JuliaEAinsley
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) July 6, 2018
Here’s the HuffPost’s Elise Foley with the truth:
https://twitter.com/elisefoley/status/1015348044466917382
10,000+ retweets for Alexander compared to not even 200 for Foley. Vox’s Dara Lind even called the Alexander report “fake news”:
Not a joke, just–ugh–fake news. https://t.co/HGEdN69UsO
— Dara Lind (@DLind) July 6, 2018
But this narrative will become the truth. Here’s is small sample of the blue-check outrage over the disputed report from Alexander:
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 100 kids under 5 still not returned to parents and she has dog sitting duties? I'll take care of her dog for her get back to work!! https://t.co/DrtVo3VXrM
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 6, 2018
Federal prosecutors are fungible as the judges in my district used to say. Get it done. https://t.co/z4Qv1lqTlU
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 7, 2018
TFW you think a dog is more important than a bunch of petrified brown children https://t.co/hM3LpHtkVu
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) July 6, 2018
Priorities https://t.co/POUiQFa9Vm
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1015343828730044418
Had to read this tweet 5 times to know it was real. https://t.co/zW5yQDlHdX
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) July 6, 2018
Are you f*cking kidding me? https://t.co/DEdyvswiKT
— Amy Hargreaves (@AmyHargreavesNY) July 6, 2018
It’s really, really weird how this keeps happening, right?
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 4, 2018
Remember the Pompeii skeleton whose head was crushed by a giant rock? Yep — FAKE NEWS, too https://t.co/n0sTb2ztuJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 4, 2018
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