Thread by @jomalleydillon

This weekend, a right wing bot network spread the completely false rumor that the Odessa shooter had a Beto sticker on his car. This was even echoed by Trump advisors. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

As a campaign, we’re almost entirely powerless to stop misinformation. We can tweet corrections, but only a fragment of the people exposed will see it. This rests on Twitter, Facebook, and Google who let this go completely unchecked.

On Twitter, we saw thousands of tweets about this conspiracy theory, some with more than 10,000 retweets. The one from "Sue Moore" is where we believe the entire thing started.

On Facebook, this post (that we suspect was spread inauthentically) has 34,000 shares.

And on Google? It was the second highest-trending search query related to Beto in the last 7 days.

The responsibility for stopping misinformation cannot be on the victims of misinformation attacks. It has to be on the tech companies who allow right wing operatives to spread misinformation. So I’m looking at you @Twitter @Google @facebook. What are you going to do about it?