ABC News Falls for Spoof Trump Twitter Handle

So somebody at ABC news sees a rouge tweet they thought was from Trump, and they run with it.

Turns out it was a fake tweet from somebody.

Had to do with a comment about "The Wall".

Then the "cover-up" onslaught.

But I know many people just believed it anyway as usual.

LOL


ABC News Falls for Spoof Trump Twitter Handle

Dealing with mistakes has long been a fact of life for journalists. The traditional course of action is to acknowledge the mistake, correct the mistake, apologize if necessary, and then move on. But in the era of any story less than 100% accurate being labeled “fake news” the temptation to quietly expunge the mistake from existence without any acknowledgement that the mistake was made is greater than ever. Only ABC News knows its motivation for attempting to disappear an embarrassing mistake it made in a story about a proposed wall at the U.S.-Mexican border. The original version, now deleted, included a tweet from a spoof Twitter handle the ABC apparently mistook as coming from President Trump.


After a reader posted a comment to the story about the error, ABC NEWS replaced it with this version; and deleted the comments from the reader pointing out the error.

a reply to: xuenchen

Always check your sources. It is fun to watch the MSM fall for such things though, you know, because they're a multi-million dollar conglomerate who have a huge staff that should be looking for these sorts of things.

You know someone got in trouble once they realized the error of their ways!

a reply to: Swills

You know someone got in trouble once they realized the error of their ways!

Considering who we are talkIng about, that person probably got a promotion...

originally posted by: Swills

You know someone got in trouble once they realized the error of their ways!

Nah, more like they were promoted.

That's funny. Mistakes happen, but the cover up speaks volumes.

I do like the idea of rouge tweets though

a reply to: burntheships

It was probably Rachel Maddow wanting to take some of the heat off her .Oh look a squirrel

a reply to: BestinShow

Sounds like gov't to me but both are owned by the same small elite crowd so you're probably right.

a reply to: xuenchen

thats kinda similar to the people who immediately believed Obama met with that judge when it was just a restaurant manager. that is how fake news gets spread.

cool story.

originally posted by: SprocketUK
I do like the idea of rouge tweets though

Me too, makes Twitter pretty.

I can understand.

When the tweet is reminiscent of something Trump would actually say, it can be confusing.

They should have fessed-up on their mistake, though.

originally posted by: SprocketUK
I do like the idea of rouge tweets though

autospell none differentiation, same as quiet, quite and quit, it was probably a 'bot what wrote that!

Still ABC was a bit naughty though.

originally posted by: introvert
I can understand.

When the tweet is reminiscent of something Trump would actually say, it can be confusing.

They should have fessed-up on their mistake, though.

They didn't 'fess up'. They deleted a comment referencing their error after they replaced the article.

a reply to: xuenchen

They will just state it as "Sources say"......
Never naming em
At least with Fox , they put their sources on television....

Every thing is so fake these days i have to check myself in the morning to see if i'm real.

originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss

Always quick with those image macros that do nothing for the discussion at hand.

Real news will change mistakes. Fake news will not.

originally posted by: UKTruth

originally posted by: introvert
I can understand.

When the tweet is reminiscent of something Trump would actually say, it can be confusing.

They should have fessed-up on their mistake, though.

They didn't 'fess up'. They deleted a comment referencing their error after they replaced the article.

No #. That's why I said they should have fessed-up.

originally posted by: introvert

originally posted by: UKTruth

originally posted by: introvert
I can understand.

When the tweet is reminiscent of something Trump would actually say, it can be confusing.

They should have fessed-up on their mistake, though.

They didn't 'fess up'. They deleted a comment referencing their error after they replaced the article.

No #. That's why I said they should have fessed-up.

So you did. Apologies.

Honestly, I can see how it would be hard to tell fake trump tweets from real ones. Damn near identical in content.