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  • 2021-06-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Kamala Harris Tweet 'Enjoy the Long Weekend' Before Memorial Day? (en)
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  • In May and June 2021, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris received criticism, primarily from right-leaning opponents, for a tweet she purportedly posted on May 29, 2021, the Saturday before that year's Memorial Day on Monday, May 31. The New York Post, for example, reported that: For its part, Fox News reported that: On Facebook, right-wing commentators responded with outrage. Benny Johnson posted a video in which he said Harris was, in her tweet, spitting on the graves of our fallen, while Mark Kaye said: Facebook users, primarily critical of Harris' tweet, enthusiastically shared screenshots of it over the course of the weekend, as shown below: Those criticisms referred to an authentic tweet. On May 29, Harris did indeed tweet Enjoy the long weekend from the @VP account, along with a photograph of herself smiling. As such, we are issuing a rating of Correct Attribution. However, this was far from the extent of her pronouncements on Memorial Day weekend in 2021. At 7 a.m. EST on May 30, Harris wrote on Twitter: And on Memorial Day itself at 5:18 p.m. EST, Harris posted what appeared to be a photograph of Arlington National Cemetery, along with the following message: Between Harris's May 30 tweet about the service and sacrifice of members of the U.S. armed forces and June 1, Johnson published no fewer than eight Facebook posts and videos castigating her Enjoy the long weekend tweet. None of them mentioned, even in passing, that the vice president had since said much more about Memorial Day. Similarly, Kaye's video, in which he criticized Harris for failing to mention Memorial Day, fallen service members, freedom, and so on, was posted on June 1 — after Harris had mentioned all those things in two subsequent tweets. As of June 1, neither the New York Post nor Fox News had updated their articles to include the fact that Harris posted in detail about the sacrifices of U.S. service members, and the ethos of Memorial Day, on May 30 and 31. (en)
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