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Congressional Democrats Circulate Hysterical Twitter Rumor As News

DanBongino: Matt Palumbo

As the famous quote goes, “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

That was on full display this week as various Democrat politicians pushed hysterical claims about Iranian Americans being detained – based off of a twitter rumor from an activist.

The myth circulated from the twitter account “hodakatebi,” a self-described “political fashion writer” who once served as CAIR’s communications coordinator in Chicago. The fashionista “informed” us, in all caps,  that

“US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION NATIONALLY HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO DETAIN & REPORT ALL IRANIANS ENTERING THE COUNTRY DEEMED POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS OR ADVERSARIAL REGARDLESS OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS.”

As of writing, the tweet has been shared nearly 50,000 times. Border Patrol personally corrected the misinformation when the tweet had fewer than 20k retweets, and yet that didn’t stop it from spreading like wildfire. Nor did the correction seem to matter, as CBP was flooded by comments from liberals telling them they don’t believe them. read more

18 Comments on Congressional Democrats Circulate Hysterical Twitter Rumor As News

  1. The rumor created and spread is a perfect example of why those people are so easily led and controlled. They believe anything told to them without regard to how ridiculous it is and is why they make such useful idiots.

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  2. Scary how people instantly believe
    any piece of garbage rumor/news just
    because it came thru on their Idiot box
    phone.Twitter is dangerous and it will
    get people killed…It has all ready got
    alot of people fired and their lives ruined.

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