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  • 2022-12-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Katie Porter Did Not Say Pedophilia Isn't a Crime, as Claimed in False Tweet (en)
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  • On Dec. 15, 2022, the Twitter account Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) tweeted a video of U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., speaking during a congressional hearing. The tweet's caption falsely claimed, Rep Katie Porter (D) says pedophilia isn't a crime -- it's an identity. For any readers who are unfamiliar with Libs of TikTok, it was described on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) website as being a popular anti-LGBTQ+ Twitter account operated by former real estate agent Chaya Raichik. As of this writing, the account had 1.6 million followers. The purpose of the hearing in which Porter was speaking (from a remote location) on Dec. 14 was to listen to survivors of the Club Q gay nightclub mass shooting in Colorado Springs, which had recently occurred, on Nov. 19. A review of Porter's complete remarks showed that she was talking about how some LGBTQ people had been wrongly branded on social media as groomers and pedophiles. Porter never said pedophilia wasn't a crime, nor did she claim that being a pedophile was a type of gender identity. A context box appeared below the false tweet thanks to Twitter's own Community Notes initiative, which read as follows: In the full video from C-SPAN, Porter was speaking with Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign. We transcribed the relevant portions of the hearing. The first two paragraphs below were not included in the video on Twitter: Only Porter's thoughts in the third paragraph above and several remarks afterward were included in the video re-shared by the Libs of TikTok account. (en)
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