Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler blasted Twitter community notes for correcting his own fact-check on Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg.
The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway and Fox News contributor Harold Ford Jr. joined ‘MediaBuzz’ to discuss the FTC’s recent request for sweeping records from Twitter.Twitter community notesKessler posted a fact-check analysis on Saturday about the"incendiary claim" by Republicans that left-wing billionaire George Soros helped to fund the Manhattan district attorney’s election campaign in 2021.
However, Twitter community notes corrected this fact-check, reporting that Soros did, in fact, donate money to an organization This referred to another tweet Kessler had, reading,"One interesting finding: Color of Change, a progressive criminal justice group that received money from Soros, had claimed it would spend $1 million on behalf of Bragg. But state elections records show it only spent about $420,000."
Twitter's community notes have provided additional"context" to tweets, including ones from politicians.
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