The interpretation I saw elsewhere was “oh look, Biden/the White House twists the truth”. Which was true, but it missed the conclusion to the story. The White House could have doubled down on their misleading claim, since it was technically true. Instead, they reacted to being called out by taking it down. The system worked, and while part of the credit goes to Twitter, another part of the credit goes to the White House for not fighting the truth.
I can’t imagine setting a lower bar.
Well yes, it is a sad state of affairs that large swaths of politicians will ignore or double down against a fact check. But with that said, I’m not letting them off the hook for the initial twisting of facts. Just acknowledging when they have the right response.
The response from Biden was to claim that “Twitter spews lies across the world”. That’s a pretty childish reaction to getting caught lying.
There’s no indication Biden was referring to that Tweet. For that matter, the White House Twitter account is likely run by its own PR staff that isn’t going to asking Biden’s speechwriters to taking out some silly vendetta against Twitter’s Context system.
Yeah, the statement just coincidentally got published right after the white house got fact checked by Twitter. And obviously Biden doesn’t actually do anything himself. He barely knows where he is at this point. The point is that the statement is what got officially published using his name.
Most politicians have better things to do than be on Twitter all day. Trump was an aberration in that sense.
He barely knows where he is at this point.
LOL. That’s been floating around the right wing conspiracy sites, but I didn’t think you indulged.
ah yes, the right wing conspiracy sites like The Independent 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4b131aHxCs
