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  • 2016-11-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Michelle Obama Scrubbed Hillary Clinton from Her Twitter Accounts (en)
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  • On 1 November 2016, the disreputable web site Your News Wire published an article reporting that First Lady Michelle Obama had deleted all mentions of Hillary Clinton from her Twitter accounts shortly after the FBI announced they may have discovered additional e-mails related to the Democratic presidential candidate's infamous private server: Your News Wire didn't provide any evidence that Obama's account had been altered in the days following FBI director Jim Comey's announcement, nor did they point to a single tweet that had been deleted. The claim that the @Flotus account had been wiped clean of all traces of Hillary is demonstrably false, as Michelle Obama tweeted that she was With Her (i.e., Hillary Clinton) on 29 July 2016: The majority of the content posted to the @FLOTUS account is bipartisan (or at least not overly politicized) in nature. As of this writing, her most recent three tweets were about education, the architecture of the White House, and Halloween. Other than the previously mentioned Tweet, the @Flotus account has rarely been used to talk about the 2016 election. Your News Wire also falsely claimed that the @MichelleObama account had been scrubbed all the way back to 2013. Again, the web site provided no evidence to back up their claim or pointed to a single tweet that had been deleted. The personal @MichelleObama Twitter account has largely been inactive since March 2013, around the time that the First Lady started up the official @Flotus account in its place: It should also be noted that Michelle Obama can't simply delete dozens of messages from her Twitter account. One of the reasons the First Lady started using the @Flotus handle instead of @MichelleObama was so that her tweets would be archived by the White House: While it's true that the @Flotus account had rarely mentioned Hillary Clinton, and while it's true that the @MichelleObama account has been inactive since 2013, there is no truth to the claim that the First Lady scrubbed either account of all mentions of Clinton. (en)
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