Perhaps the best change implemented at Twitter by Elon Musk was the feature “Community Notes,” when other users of the social media platform collectively correct lies and smears in real-time.
President Joe Biden has been a prominent Community Notes recipient. Now, the liberal head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union joins him.
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, and nine others were released from jail after being arrested Monday night on trespassing charges for protesting a six-week abortion ban poised to pass the Legislature.
As noted by the conservative website Twitchy.com on Tuesday, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, ripped Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for the arrests of left-wing protesters at a pro-abortion rally on Monday night.
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“Now DeSantis is arresting is opponents,” Weingarten tweeted after a photo was posted of Democratic Sen. Lauren Book and Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried being arrested after arguing for killing more children. (Speaking Of Arresting Opponents: Trump Enters ‘Not Guilty’ Plea To 34 Charges Of Falsifying Business Records)
Except it was a lie, as the Community Notes chorus informed Weingarten and the world.
The context added by Twitter’s readers noted that Book and Fried, dressed in a classy T-shirt that read “Just F**king Vote,” were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department.
Moreover, the arrest occurred outside City Hall.
A Democratic mayor and a City Commission with a Democratic majority manage Tallahassee.
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In other words, as Twitchy explained, “Unless Ron DeSantis went from being Governor of Florida to Mayor of Tallahassee and also switched parties from Republican to Democrat, Ron DeSantis has literally nothing to do with the arrest of Nikki Fried. Which we must again point out was a blatant political stunt and nothing more.”
“You’ve really gotta love ’em,” Twitchy added of Community Notes.
“And you’ve really gotta keep using them to bust Randi Weingarten because she’s never going to stop lying to people.”
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