Trump was duped by Twitter’s fake
news story going down to defend Biden
U.S.
President Donald Trump blamed the global Twitter blackout on Thursday on the company’s deliberate effort
to defend Joe Biden, citing an clearly false news article written in “The Onion” style.
The headline on the Babylon Bee, a Christian satire blog, read:
“Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Dissemination of Negative Biden News.”
The false news reported that on Thursday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had smashed his servers to censor
an unverified news from the New York Post about the Democratic presidential nominee and his son, Hunter.
Because of its policies concerning hacked materials, Twitter
restricted the dissemination of the story on Thursday.
There is, however, no proof that the article has
anything to do with the Thursday afternoon Twitter blackout.
“Wow, in history, this has never been done,” Trump tweeted Friday
morning, along with a link to the tale of the Babylon Bee.
This includes his very
poor last night interview.
Why does
Twitter do that?
To get Sleepy Joe
& Big T more attention.
It is uncertain if Trump is actually reading the script, starting with Dorsey and other weak-armed programmers trying to break
all the Twitter HQ computers, and ending with a bunch of robots targeting “all the white cis males” in sight.
As Trump referred to in his tweet, the article does
not contain something about Biden’s town hall event on Thursday.
Critics ridiculed Trump for actually believing any “fake news” literally, a
word he sometimes uses for actual news stories he doesn’t like.
In response to Trump’s tweet,
writer Dan Fagin wrote: “It’s satire.”
To expose stupidity, satire is the
use of humour, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.
It
went well.
As Trump’s legions of supporters and opponents flocked to
the platform, The Bee’s website crashed several times on Friday.
“On Twitter, the Babylon Bee describes itself as” fake news you can trust, “and its homepage is packed with satirical headlines such as” In a
lively 7-hour interview with Joe Rogan, Trump gets absolutely stoned, “and” Amazon’s Latest Lord of the Rings series will feature bisexual transgender elves in wheelchair.
“The Babylon Bee is the best satire site in the world,
completely inerrant in all its claims to reality,” the site says.
By sharing a link to one of its
stories from 2018, The Bee celebrated Trump’s mistake.
The website tweeted, “President Trump declares the
Babylon Bee his most reliable news source.”
The story was initially written as a joke, but
on Friday, Trump offered proof to support his claims.
Trump seemed to blame Twitter in a
follow-up tweet for his mistake Friday morning.
Big T was not a reference to me, but rather to Big Tech,
which in the Fake Trending Section of Twitter should have been properly pointed out!
“He
was writing.
In recent days, Trump has renewed his assaults on Section 230 of the Communications Decency
Act, which safeguards the responsibility of social media sites for what people post on their websites.
In the midst of Twitter and Facebook attempts to fact-check his inaccurate
and misleading posts about mail-in ballots, Trump has been targeting Section 230.
Section 230 protects the responsibility of sites such as Twitter ,
Facebook and YouTube for posts posted by their users, including Trump.
Kate Ruane, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Associated Press in May, “If websites were not exempt
under the law, then they would not face the legal exposure that could come with hosting Donald Trump ‘s lies, defamation, and intimidation.”
Among other items, Trump has a well-documented history of spreading theories of conspiracy and other myths
about the coronavirus, far-left anarchists, mail-in ballots, his crowd sizes, and the birth certificate of Barack Obama.
He has been hesitant to
criticize radical viewpoints as well.
For instance, he refused to denounce the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory on Thursday night, which holds him
as a warrior for God against so-called “deep state pedophiles” out to drink the blood of children.
“During the discussion, he said,”
I know nothing about QAnon.
When asked in August about the party
and its values, Trump made similar statements.
At the time, he said, “I don’t know anything about the campaign,
except that I understand that they like me very much, which I appreciate.”
“There are people who love
our country, I have heard.”
Amid fears that it was supporting real-world extremism, Facebook,
Twitter and YouTube removed the radical movement from their websites.
The U.S. election for president
is scheduled for Nov. 3.
