Thread by @ggreenwald

Let's see where disinformation comes from.

The wildly viral tweets claiming that a Florida law signed by Ron DeSantis requires students to register their political views is so blatantly false that CNN's @ddale8 does not even try to mask how false it was:

edition.cnn.com/2022/07/08/pol…

Then we have the even-more viral claim -- that made its way to the WH -- that Border Patrol agents "whipped" migrants, a claim spread by various Dem House members and Dem media figures like @chrislhayes. Even the Biden Admin now admits that never happened.

Again, these are the same people who not only claim to be combatting disinformation but insist they are so reliably honest and have such superior wisdom they should be trusted to *censor the internet* in its name.

Nobody spreads disinformation most casually and destructively.

https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1545492085293334528

You'll be shocked to learn that one of the liberal Twitter accounts most responsible for the spreading of this lie about the Florida bill was @ProjectLincoln. Even despite CNN's debunking of this lie, it's still up with a link to the false article.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1544403253529661440

This viral tweet from @TheRickWilson spreading this lie that was so blatant even CNN debunked it as a lie is, of course, still up and spreading, with no little note from Twitter about disinformation or anything else.

In a statement to CNN, #Resistance author @StephenKing said how sorry he was he spread a lie about the Florida law in a mega-viral tweet. He's so sorry the tweet is still up, spreading, and he never bothered to tell his 7 million followers it's false.

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1544488679644823554

After liberals virally spread 2 false stories -- a Florida law requiring students to register their political views and CBP agents "whipping" migrants -- WPost is now questioning the story about the 10-year-old Ohio girl forced to leave for an abortion:

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

As the Post suggests, there's no proof the story is false -- can't prove a negative -- but the evidence for it is woefully inadequate given how far and wide it spread, including by the WH. Possible it will be proven, true but it shows how recklessness is permitted for The Cause.

After two liberal fraudulent hoaxes went viral last week -- the Florida law "requiring students register political views" and the CBP/whipping story -- the WPost questioned whether the Ohio rape story was also false (see above). There's now an arrest.

washingtonpost.com/politics/man-c…

An ICE official told Fox the arrested suspect is a Guatemalan immigrant in the US illegally, likely shifting the focus of the story. Also, Ohio has a rape exception in its law so that part is still unclear.

foxnews.com/politics/ohio-…

Here's the WPost's more precise description of the Ohio exception. The paper says it's "unclear" if this 10-year-old's case would have met it.

washingtonpost.com/politics/man-c…