Twitter’s “Community Notes” program has become the latest frontier in the social media proxy battles between both the DeSantis and Trump camps as the sparring and war of words hits fever pitch headed into summertime.
As the New York Post reported, the Trump campaign and its allies have been hit particularly hard by the user-maintained “context-adding” system in recent weeks, getting hit seven times last month over tweets about DeSantis that were either untrue or lacked context:
Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign’s claims are already being hit with Twitter’s new “community notes,” which fact-check or offer context to dubious posts.In May alone, Team Trump and their surrogates were slapped with community notes on at least seven occasions — and were often cited for posting flat-out lies.On May 25, Trump campaign spokeswoman Elizabeth Harrington reposted a campaign press release stating. “Ron DeSantis Voted For The Exact DACA Bill Over Which He Is Now Attacking President Trump.”DeSantis had in fact supported a more conservative version — against a Trump-supported compromise bill, an appended fact check read, which labeled Harrington’s tweet “false.”The bill DeSantis voted for did not include a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants — while Trump’s compromise bill did.
Here are some of the other Community Noted tweets, which include some by other Trump surrogates and influencers:
Relatedly:
There were also these:
Ramaswamy, who might as well be a Trump influencer at this point considering his campaign is little more than a front for bashing DeSantis while remaining silent on Trump, complained about being Community Noted for an incorrect tweet about DeSantis, and alleged without evidence that it was being done because Twitter CEO Elon Musk and DeSantis are buddy-buddy or something (check out the Community Note added at the bottom):
For the record, the Community Note on his video tweet was removed for reasons unrelated to whether or not the added context was accurate. Whatever the case may be, he was still fact-checked in the comments:
While others in the Trump camp are also crying foul, it’s important to note that Trump has also been aided by Community Notes:
Basically, anyone can be a target of Community Notes – including Elon Musk himself. So to suggest there’s some sort of conspiracy and/or implicit bias going on over the Community Notes feature is just silly.
That being said, there’s one important thing people who have complaints about it can do in order to stop getting flagged for sharing incorrect/misleading information on the Twitter machine: stop posting it in the first place:
‘Nuff said.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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