Thread by @HKrassenstein

ANNOUNCEMENT (Thread): Farewell everyone. My mission here, as well as my husband's and brother-in-law's (Brian and Ed Krassenstein) was always to fact-check Trump and counter his use of social media to attack our democracy. On November 3rd, we won, America won and the world ...

won as the President lost in what he'd call a "landslide". I am taking a break from social media, perhaps forever, as I feel the onslaught of lies will gradually wain from here. With that said, social media could be this nation's downfall, if those in charge allow it to be ...

used to spread baseless conspiracy theories and centralize radical ideologies. Over the last 5 years we've had our lives threatened dozens of times, disgusting lies made up and propagated about our families, the FBI, DHS and local police at our homes numerous times because ...

of threats and false reports by Trump sycophants.

When our family started this journey we decided that Trump's loss would be our final hurrah. Despite the lies propagated about us, my husband, brother-in-law and I never earned a dime from our tweeting.

We were called “grifters,” yet never “grifted” a soul. We donated literally every penny we brought in through Twitter to charities and causes which are important to us. We are involved in numerous lawsuits for defamation as well as in legal talks with Twitter over their ...

patently false and defamatory claims regarding Brian and Ed’s Twitter ban in 2019. You will likely hear more about this in the news in the near future.

My final word to all of you is that, as a nation, we must put an emphasis on fact-checking, sourcing and discredited blatant and not-so-blatant conspiracy theories. Lies are the weapons used by those who want to deceive the world for power.

Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms must do more to prevent the widespread propagation of conspiracy theories, many which can lead to violence and crime. Social media has become a drug to our society, with people relying on it to supply them with likes and retweets...

which please their dopamine receptors in the same way that drugs and alcohol do for addicts. For all too many, truth no longer takes precedent over the quick fix provided by a viral tweet or Facebook post.

Memes and viral social media posts are viewed by many people as the gospel rather than the uninformed, opinionated, often-fictitious garbage that they are.

With this said, the same people who claim that we are “sheep” for listening to...

the mainstream media, are the ones being herded on a daily basis by far-right blogs and the current U.S. President, falling for the conspiratorial words of a demagogue over facts that they should see with their own eyes, if they only tried to open them for 1 second.

Americans will never agree with each other politically, but we should all agree that this division and hatred need to stop. Since the 17th century, the scientific method has been viewed as the ultimate means to acquire knowledge, but in the past 4 years...

over half of the country seems to have regressed into the 16th century.

Thanks again for all of your attention. I hope my words were able to change at least 1 opinion. If so, then this was all well worth it. (End Thread)