{"id":2072,"date":"2016-12-07T04:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/trump-fires-a-member-of-his-transition-team-for-tweeting-fake-news.html"},"modified":"2016-12-07T04:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:03:43","slug":"trump-fires-a-member-of-his-transition-team-for-tweeting-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/trump-fires-a-member-of-his-transition-team-for-tweeting-fake-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump fires a member of his transition team for tweeting fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"


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So-called fake news has real consequences, and everyone in the U.S. keeps learning that the hard way. Not just executives at social networks like Facebook<\/a>, Reddit <\/a>and Twitter.<\/a> Or disgruntled\u00a0and\u00a0brilliant<\/a> Weather Channel meteorologists.<\/p>\n

Driven by misinformation masquerading as news, in the latest tragic incident, a gunman on Sunday opened fire in a kid-friendly Washington, D.C. pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong.<\/p>\n

According to NPR\u2019s report<\/a> on the incident: \u201c[The man] claimed to be \u2018self-investigating\u2019 a\u2026wholly fictitious conspiracy theory that maintains Comet Ping Pong is the site of an international Satanic child sex abuse cabal hosted by powerful Democrats, including Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully nobody was killed at the hands of the conspiracy-believing vigilante in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0the day after that shooting, Michael G. Flynn Jr.,\u00a0who was\u00a0a member of Trump\u2019s transition team, was fired for tweets that continued to espouse the conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n

The son of Trump senior advisor General Michael Flynn\u00a0ignored police work that had called the conspiracy absolutely baseless, and ignored the dangerous impact of endorsing a conspiracy theory that\u2019s already led to gun violence.<\/p>\n

News outlets have been quick to point out the hypocrisy of Trump firing someone for sharing misinformation on Twitter \u2014 our PEOTUS\u00a0is not usually an arbiter of accuracy.<\/p>\n

His\u00a0history of deceit via tweet hearkens back to 2011. Then, he embarked on\u00a0years of lies<\/a> about President Barack Obama\u2019s U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n

The following year,\u00a0he claimed\u00a0climate change was a hoax<\/a> perpetrated by the Chinese.<\/p>\n

And, more recently,\u00a0he adamantly lied to his followers\u00a0that he won the electoral college vote by a landslide<\/a>, and would have won the popular vote if not for millions of illegal voters.<\/p>\n

We have to wonder whose job is on the line next? Even General Flynn has used social media, including Twitter, to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories<\/a> about Hillary Clinton, baselessly suggesting she was involved in child trafficking.<\/p>\n

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