Flooding the Disinformation Superhighway 0
The San Francisco Chronicle’s John Diaz comments on the flood of flummery on “social” media. A snippet:
Two words of caution: tweeter beware.
No one needs that reminder more than President Trump. He embarrassed himself early Friday morning by retweeting an article by the satirical Babylon Bee website that stated Twitter shut down its entire network “in a last-ditch effort to stop negative stories about Joe Biden and his family from spreading.”
In high dudgeon at 3:07 a.m., Trump retweeted the satire (from a site with what should have been the telltale motto, “Fake news you can trust”): “Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big T.”