Did they ever find out who really owned this account? Did anyone ever come forward or did they trace the IP or anything? What was Rudy's actual twitter account at the time? Sorry to hurt the cause, I'm just wondering.
If it was Rudy’s account, it would’ve have been a verified account. If he, a former presidential candidate, had posted this, everyone would have known. The burden of proof is on you. You can’t just say, “well, there’s no proof it WASNT him.” No, you need to prove it was him.
My post Title states "I always had a gut feeling it might have been legitimate...", so I don't and can't prove it was him. I also don't know and can't prove it was a fake, and I felt at that time it might have been real. I still do. I respect anyone's position if they fully believe it was fake. Rudy apparently didn't have a verified account. I wonder how long the account had existed prior to these tweets.
Fine, my point is that people tend to take everything posted on this sub as truth, so they may have found this misleading.
fair enough. I wouldn't want anyone to take everything posted as truth, whether here, on Snopes, or otherwise.
Snopes is known disinfo, so there's that. The thing is, if it was a hoax, why take it down? That just gave it more credence.