

The Trump War Room tends to retweet and share links to stories from several sites that are hyperpartisan and contain misinformation, including “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Federalist. Trump War Room amplifies misinformation from other sources Room account), I think, was perhaps even explicitly an attempt by the campaign President’s enemies and he does all these things as himself. “He’s a constant attack dog, he takes on the Philip Bump, a national correspondent for The Washington Post who has written about and interacted with the account, finds similarities between the accounts run by the Trump War Room and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son. Matt Wolking, who joined the campaign’s communications team in March, is responsible for the campaign’s “aggressive rapid response team, refuting attacks and exposing the fake news media.” Talking Points Memo reported in May that Wolking has a history of spreading inaccurate information that goes back to his college days, when he ran a blog that included the inaccurate claim that Muslims “danced in the streets on 9/11.” The Trump campaign, which did not respond to a request for comment, doesn’t identify who runs the account. The account frequently posts videos, presumably to back up the text from its tweets, but at times, the video’s content directly contradicts its own claim. Particular account demonstrates the ability of a major political campaign toĬonsistently amplify serious falsehoods as social media platforms opt not toĪs highlighted by Slater’s experience, the account considers journalists and their work a perennial target. Regularly creates and shares misinformation, sometimes from other sources. Reviewed the Trump War Room Twitter account’s posts since May and found that it “Journalists are the enemy of the people, according to Trump, and I guess they wanted to do a little public shaming,” Slater said. He was even more surprised, though, that strangers were harassing him on Twitter because his post had been shared by a verified account operated by the Trump campaign. He was surprised to learn that the account he’d retweeted belonged to Tim Murtaugh, the communications director for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. Slater said that some of the responses he received during the next 24 hours contained obscenities and gay slurs. An account with the handle had retweeted his post, misidentifying Slater as an editor and asking its followers to “RETWEET if you are a PROUD ‘DEPLORABLE’!” Soon, a wave of notifications rolled in, none of them friendly. Idiocy” to the image of a large overflow crowd from a Pennsylvania rally, and
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