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  • 2022-05-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Lauren Boebert ‘Severe Thunderstorm Watch’ Tweet – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • Lauren Boebert ‘Severe Thunderstorm Watch’ Tweet Claim On May 16 2022, Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted: There is a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in NEW YORK CITY. Joe is even destroying the Blue States. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting On May 16 2022, a screenshot of a purported tweet attributed to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) circulated, pinning the blame for a severe thunderstorm watch in New York to the policies of United States President Joe Biden: @laurenboebert lauren boebert has Biden derangement syndrome. (She deleted this tweet) pic.twitter.com/d90xdWvywy — Takagi (Transformer) (@otakuloversan) May 16, 2022 In the above tweet from 2:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, an account tagged the verified account @laurenboebert and stated Boebert has Biden derangement syndrome. That was accompanied by claims that Boebert deleted this tweet, attaching what appeared to be a screenshot of a May 16 2022 tweet. That screenshot displayed a time stamp (10:12 AM) and a date, May 16 2022. To the right of the date, however, was a suspiciously solitary dot — one which usually preceded text like Twitter Web App. The tweet attributed to Boebert read: There is a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in NEW YORK CITY. Joe is even destroying the Blue States. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Although it appeared on first glance that random capitalization appeared in the screenshot of a tweet, that wasn’t entirely the case. On May 16 2022, Severe Thunderstorm Watch was a Twitter trending topic, and it rendered in the same way it was typed in the screenshot. A quick search of politicians’ deleted tweets of ProPublica’s Politwoops showed us that the most recent deleted tweet on the @laurenboebert account was on May 3 2022. We also located what appeared to be the first appearance of the Boebert Severe Thunderstorm Watch tweet , from the account @FaithRubPol (at 2:42 PM Eastern Standard Time): Severe Thunderstorm Watch & she blames Biden? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/QuyIQlWkr9 — Back Rub 👉 PLZ follow! 👊👍 (@FaithRubPol) May 16, 2022 A November 2021 Reuters fact check about a different fake tweet noted that the screenshot was shared by the Twitter account @FaithRubPol which clearly identifies itself as satirical. Similarly, the @FaithRubPol iteration (tweeted 15 minutes prior to the other embedded tweet) did contain information to the right of the dot; it read Parody by Back Rub. As a Severe Thunderstorm Watch went into effect for New York on May 16 2022, screenshots of a purported tweet by Rep. Lauren Boebert claiming that U.S. President Joe Biden was even destroying the Blue States. That screenshot was originally created with a visible satire warning. Fifteen minutes after @FaithRubPol shared the satirical tweet, another user blocked out the Parody ... element and falsely claimed she deleted the tweet. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged deleted tweets , fake tweets , lauren boebert , lauren boebert severe thunderstorm watch (en)
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