This tweet below, published December 21 with now over 100k likes pushing the false claim of widespread voter fraud is ripped from a 2019 tweet published by a Brussels-based account.

But even original tweet itself had been corrected previously by data scientists.
This tweet below, published December 21 with now over 100k likes pushing the false claim of widespread voter fraud is ripped from a 2019 tweet published by a Brussels-based account.But even original tweet itself had been corrected previously by data scientists.
This tweet below, published December 21 with now over 100k likes pushing the false claim of widespread voter fraud is ripped from a 2019 tweet published by a Brussels-based account.But even original tweet itself had been corrected previously by data scientists.
@BettinaForget of @SETIInstitute tweeted this, in a way showing how the original tweet could make people mislead.

- People vote, not land. https://twitter.com/BettinaForget/status/1324139878666391555
The same stuff tends to be recycled.

This is Lara Trump tweeting in 2019.
Takeaways from this:

- No attempt from Twitter for third-party fact-checkers to add context to viral tweets
- The same misinformation/misleading content is often recycled and repurposed
- The visualisation of maps can be misleading - don't need high tech, memes can mislead
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