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  • 2021-01-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Has Vice President Mike Pence Unfollowed President Donald Trump on... (en)
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  • Has Vice President Mike Pence Unfollowed President Donald Trump on Twitter? Claim Vice President Mike Pence did not follow President Donald Trump on Twitter on January 6 2021. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting As far-right rioters invaded the United States Capitol on January 6 2021, one viral rumor after another popped up in quick succession — among them a claim that the account belonging to Vice President Mike Pence had unfollowed President Donald Trump on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thomasgodfreyuk/status/1346923419342925826 At 2:24 PM local time, President Trump (@realDonaldTrump) attacked Pence, tweeting : https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346900434540240897 Twitter appended a detailed flag to that tweet, which read: This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence Several Twitter users began claiming shortly thereafter that Pence unfollowed Trump on Twitter, deemed important due to Trump’s reliance on Twitter for governance: LMAOOO MIKE PENCE JUST UNFOLLOWED TRUMP Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — lewistbh (@notlewistbh) January 6, 2021 On January 6 2021, the third-party app DoesFollow.com indeed indicated that Pence (@Mike_Pence) did not follow Trump (@realDonaldTrump): Additionally, Pence followed so few people that it was easy to read through Twitter’s list of accounts followed by Pence. On January 6 2021, Pence followed only 47 accounts — among them @GOP, @FLOTUS (the First Lady’s account), and @POTUS, the handle passed down from President Obama to President Trump. @realDonaldTrump did not appear on that list; the possibility remained that Pence only followed @POTUS and had not ever followed @realDonaldTrump, but it was also possible Pence unfollowed President Trump after the chaotic storming of the Capitol by Trump’s supporters. At 4:22 PM, we re-checked Pence’s following list, and @realDonaldTrump had reappeared: As such, it was true Pence didn’t follow Trump on January 6 2021, or at least true for Trump’s main @realDonaldTrump account. It was not clear when or if Pence unfollowed Trump, but users took note of the absence of Trump’s account from Pence’s following list not long after Trump directed ire at his own Vice President via Twitter on that date. Soon after Twitter users began discussing the unfollow, Pence appeared to re-follow Trump. Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged did pence unfollow trump , insurrection , mike pence , pence unfollowed trump , storming capitol , US Capitol Police , Vice-President Mike Pence , viral tweets (en)
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