Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Here's what happened:
Media corporations know the public hates and distrusts their employees. So they created the fake title "fact-checker" for the same reason they created "disinformation experts": to pretend these are new and more honest people than those you came to loathe:
Glenn Kessler @GlennKesslerWP·8h
Twitter trolls who posted a "community note" to this tweet apparently have not read the actual fact check. Click the link and you will find that Color of Change did not spend $1 million in independent expenditures on Bragg, as people often claim.
New #FactChecker -The incendiary claim that George Soros ‘funds’ Alvin Bragg
https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1642144423956889600
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The original Community Note does not say that the Color of Change PAC spent the $1 million it originally pledged. Soros donated $1 million to the PAC days after it endorsed Bragg and pledged more than $1 million in spending to support his candidacy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/22/trump-indictment-alvin-bragg-ties-to-george-soros-examined.html
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9:26 PM · Apr 1, 2023
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