| Gateway Pundit's tweet, 23 June 2020 contradicts his fake news tweet of 13 June 2020. |
UPDATE 30 June 2020: Those bikers still have not cleared out CHOP/CHAZ.
UPDATE 23 JUNE 2020: It's been 10 days since Gateway Pundit breathlessly told you that Bikers For Trump were surely on their way to clear out Seattle's East Precinct, a.k.a. "CHAZ" or "CHOP." And 10 days ago I told you that Gateway Pundit was reported Fake News.
Guess what... On June 22 it was reported that Seattle's mayor Jenny Durkan had had enough of the "revolutionaries" in their occupied "autonomous zone." Perhaps the shootings, with a fatality, were the last straw. In any case, it will be the Seattle Police Department who reclaim the area, NOT a bunch of bikers as fantasized by Gateway Pundit. Even GP had to acknowledge this (screenshot, above right).
My original post of June 13:
| Screenshot June 13, 2020 |
We all profess to hate it, yet many people frequently step in it without realizing it. Too many people don't take 90 seconds to research something that sounds too good, or too ridiculous, to be true.
Worse, however, is that some people deliberately post it. It's almost always sensationalistic, guaranteed clickbait. To stay with the metaphor, they purposely poop on the sidewalk and hope you walk right into it.
Gateway Pundit is a popular website and has nearly 269,000 followers on Twitter. A lot of people trust Gateway Pundit. And that's sad.
