Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

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(11-20-2020, 09:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Always question a quote when there's a "..." linking two parts to make it look terrible.

The tweet is no longer available.

I don't know who this person is (neither the quoted person or the person making the tweet), what the context is, nor do I have a dog left in this race (Jo Jorgensen was never going to win, so no need for me to get invested in potential recounts) but that's just critical thinking 101. Doubly so when the tweet gets taken down.

Poster is a journalist speaking about one of Trump’s attorneys. I was curious so I looked at his feed. He removed the tweet because he couldn’t tell if it was a verified account that posted it.

There’s a lot of fake accounts for the lawyer and, because of Parler being this free speech paradise or what not, they don’t do anything about it. She did, however, say essentially that on Fox last night: "The entire election frankly in all the swing states should be overturned, and the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump."

Verdict: journalist/author tweets impersonator account of Trump lawyer saying something similar to what she said in real life. Deletes it after he sees it’s a fake account.