Anonymous ID: 6ca389 June 9, 2020, 8:41 p.m. No.9556742   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6750 >>7065 >>7334 >>7408

They jumped on this pretty quick

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-foundation-floyd-death/

 

This rumor has no truth to it. The Obama Foundation’s tweets shared links to its website, Obama.org. The preview image for that page updates dynamically on Twitter when the platform’s web crawlers (bots) re-index (restructure the website data for) the preview image for the website every week.

 

In other words, at a certain point following Floyd’s death the foundation changed the Twitter Card image for the website, which retroactively updated the image on past tweets. A Twitter spokesperson told Snopes that the image shown in the card updates when the foundation updates the data used to generate the card. The group did not edit the tweet, according to the spokesperson, but may have changed the data associated with the link.

We reached out to the Obama Foundation to ask about the photo on June 8. On June 9, the image from the May 16 post had been changed to the foundation’s logo:

An Obama Foundation spokesperson confirmed for us that the rumor is false, and that the preview image for Obama.org updates dynamically based on information set in the link. The photograph of the poster with Floyd’s face on it was taken on May 30, 2020, according to the foundation, and was first used on the site on May 31.

 

We therefore rate this claim as “False.”

Anonymous ID: 6ca389 June 9, 2020, 8:57 p.m. No.9556865   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.theblaze.com/news/roger-stone-cnn-raid-fbi

 

How is this an example of good journalism, exactly?

 

The award for journalism was given to CNN by the White House Correspondents' Association on Tuesday.

"CNN's reporting on the Roger Stone arrest began a month earlier, with a clue about a court scheduling anomaly. Then came unusual grand jury activity. Then an odd, packed suitcase wheeled by one of the prosecutors in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Stone," the WHCA judges said of the report.

 

"It culminated early in the morning of Jan. 25, 2019, when a CNN producer and a photojournalist, staked outside of Stone's home in Ft. Lauderdale, captured the 5 a.m., no-knock raid by the FBI of the former confidant of President Donald Trump," the judges added.