It seems that Donald isn’t the only member of the Trump crew that has a knack for spreading bullshit information far and wide.
According to a new report, Trump’s eldest son and namesake Donald Trump Jr. ended up with a fact-check on an Instagram post he made that resulted in a hidden photo and a warning letting viewers know that the information contained in the post was rated “partly false.”
Since December, the Instagram app, which is owned by Facebook, has been working in connection with forty-five “third-party fact-checkers,” all certified by the International Fact-Checking Network to get a handle on false information shared to the social media platform by identifying, reviewing, and tagging posts deemed as misinformation.
Instagram states that when their fact-checkers “identify false information on Instagram, we make it harder to find by filtering it from Explore and Hashtags, and reducing its visibility in Feed and Stories.”
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“We also help people to decide for themselves what to read, trust, and share by giving them more information on posts with false information warnings,” but goes on to add that “original content” from politicians is not subject to the fact-checking rules.
However, it seems that Donald Trump Jr. and his post doesn’t fall under that exception.
The eldest Trump child posted a meme to the social media platform that blamed Democrats for making the coronavirus outbreak in the United States all the worse.
The meme suggested that Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and his fellow Democrats had a “meltdown” when Trump announced a travel ban from China at the beginning of the outbreak and claims that the Democrats labeled the move as an attack on immigrants.
However, Lead Stories fact-checked Junior’s meme and determined that Schumer never made such a statement.
The fact-check went on to determine that the original source of the meme — a tweet in which the minority leader allegedly called the move “premature” and a “war on immigrants” — was fabricated, as well.
Junior’s offending post is still live on the social media platform but features a hidden image with a warning across the screen notifying viewers that the information contained in the image is false.
Users then have the ability to view the image if they so choose, or click on the link included that will take them to the fact-check of the content.
It just goes to show that these people don’t have a care in the world about “fake news.” They just care about news that doesn’t favor them.
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