Contextomy is propaganda that takes a “quote out of...context to artificially generate new meaning.”
Example: @dennis_welch posts video of AZ audit observer who says auditors are looking 4 bamboo shreds in ballots. Buries in video 2 that observer does NOT believe this himself 1/
Example: @dennis_welch posts video of AZ audit observer who says auditors are looking 4 bamboo shreds in ballots. Buries in video 2 that observer does NOT believe this himself 1/
Video goes viral. Large accounts harass this observer bc they are under the false impression—created by @dennis_welch and his misleading video editing—that Brakey believes the crazy theory that the ballots will be found to have bamboo shreds in them. 2/
.@Dennis_welch does not bother to clear up the confusion. It’s fun having your video go viral at someone else’s expense.
@KeithOlbermann doesn’t notice or doesn’t care about the many people correcting him.
@maddow runs the miskeadingly edited clip too. 3/
@KeithOlbermann doesn’t notice or doesn’t care about the many people correcting him.
@maddow runs the miskeadingly edited clip too. 3/
8/ I try to help the observer, someone I’ve known for years, by reporting Welch’s and Olbermann’s misleading & defamatory tweets to @TwitterSupport, but they do nothing bc these are large accounts with blue checks, which means they get to mislead and smear without consequence.
9/ The two clips combined are indeed less than 2 minutes. Twitter let’s you embed videos up to 2:20 minutes. There was no reason for @dennis_welch split them up other than to mislead create a frenzy at this observer’s expense.
10/ Shame on @dennis_welch, @KeithOlbermann, and everyone who ran with this. @Maddow needs to apologize for running the misleadingly edited clip on air. We expect more from her. This is very disappointing.
11/ Another blue check smears the election observer based on @dennis_welch’s misleadingly edited video clip. @brahmresnik has been corrected but chooses to leave up his post. Shame on him too.
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