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Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2023-12-10): Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were "permanently banned" from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules. [...] After Musk posted the poll, he agreed with a user calling permanent account bans "antithetical to free speech." Musk said, "I find it hard to disagree with this point."
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2023-02-09): It’s not the only inconsistency. Practically ever since Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, a deal that B. and his fellow travelers hoped would liberate them from the supposed censorship of Big Tech, he has whined that nefarious "algorithms" continue to limit his reach, with Musk eagerly (if vaguely) answering him like a 24/7 tech support bot. The tantrums are all the more unjustified in light of @catturd2 crossing the million-follower mark just two weeks after Musk took the reins. There’s nothing the CEO can realistically do to appease B., whose tweets about being throttled by shadowbans ironically receive hundreds of millions of views.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2022-11-03): Musk previously responded to AOC’s advertising of her Team AOC periwinkle supporter crew sweatshirt. Musk tweeted an image of the merchandise, circling the $58 price tag on the website. [...] Ocasio-Cortez also retweeted Musk’s tweet, writing "Proud of this and always will be. My workers are union, make a living wage, have full healthcare, and aren’t subject to racist treatment in their workplaces. Items are made in USA. Team AOC honors and respects working people. You should try it sometime instead of union-busting." [...] Musk recently took over Twitter for a purchase of $44 billion, and he has already ousted many top executives, including the one who permanently banned former President Donald Trump.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2023-05-30): AOC Says Musk Has Boosted ‘Fake Account’ Imitating Her on Twitter ‘BE CAREFUL’ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she was "assessing with my team how to move forward" after a "fake account" impersonating her on Twitter went viral. "The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility," she tweeted. "It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread." While AOC didn’t specify the account, it appears to be @AOCpress or "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody)," whose tweet joking "This might be the wine talking, but I’ve got a crush on @elonmusk" blew up over the weekend. A community note on the tweet quickly clarified that the account was a parody, as its display name and bio clearly indicated, although the note said "most phone resolutions truncate long display names, and could be misleading for most." The parody account has a paid blue check mark, while AOC’s real account has a gray check for government officials. Twitter CEO Elon Musk previously banned accounts that impersonate others without a "parody" label after a flood of tweeters used the chaotic blue-check rollout to impersonate Musk.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2022-12-16): So, last night, after banning a ton of journalist accounts on Twitter, Elon and his Trust & Safety VP, Ella Irwin, tried to defend the decision. But they did so badly. Irwin pushed out a bullshit statement to the media: [...] Eventually Musk jumped on Twitter, of course, and like Irwin, tried to pretend that they were just making sure the rules applied equally to journalists as to everyone else. Except… that was always the case? The issue was that yesterday, they created new laughably stupid rules to ban an account tweeting publicly available information regarding Elon Musk’s jet. Then Musk took it further and claimed that this (again) publicly available information was "assassination coordinates." [...] Now, you can criticize that decision. You can offer alternative arguments for it. But there was a rationale for it, and it’s the exact same one Musk and his team are now using to justify these bans. But we’re not seeing the screaming and gnashing about how this is "against free speech" or whatever from Musk and his supporters. We’re not likely to see Musk have Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss do a breathless expose on his internal DMs while all this went down.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2023-03-06): If Your Time is short - Elon Musk didn’t ban U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., from Twitter. Her accounts are active. Twitter CEO Elon Musk didn’t ban U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., from the social media platform despite recent claims circulating online. [...] Twitter, Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter / The reporters have tweeted about his private jet recently, Dec. 16, 2023 @AOC, visited March 9, 2023 @RepAOC, visited March 9, 2023
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2022-12-15): Twitter on Thursday evening banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists from the nation’s top news organizations, marking a significant attempt by new owner and self-described free speech absolutist Elon Musk to wield his unilateral authority over the platform to censor the press. The accounts belonging to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and other journalists who have covered Musk aggressively in recent weeks were all abruptly permanently suspended. The account of progressive independent journalist Aaron Rupar was also banned. [...] The @ElonJet account, which had amassed more than 500,000 followers, was permanently suspended Wednesday after Twitter introduced a set of new policies banning accounts that track people’s live locations. Musk also blocked any account linking to such information. Previously, there were no location sharing-related restrictions on Twitter.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2023-02-08): Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. And at the time, Twitter's policy included a specific example when it came to banned abuse against immigrants as they specifically included the phrase, ``Go back to your country'' or ``Go back to where you came from,'' correct? [...] You know, Elon Musk took over Twitter and he banned 44,000 accounts that were promoting child porn. You permanently banned my Twitter account, but you allowed child porn all over [...] Congresswoman repeatedly violated Twitter's policies about sharing misinformation about COVID-19. She received multiple written warnings about that conduct. She received multiple timeouts related to that conduct. And then ultimately, consistent with the written and published policy, those repeated violations resulted in her account being permanently suspended.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2024-10-09): - ^ Heath, Alex (December 16, 2022). "Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter". The Verge. Archived from the original on December 16, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2022. [...] - ^ Stokel-Walker, Chris (December 18, 2022). "Elon Musk just broke Twitter by banning outside social links". Fast Company. Archived from the original on December 18, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022. [...] - ^ Marcetic, Branko (November 29, 2022). "Elon Musk, "Free Speech Absolutist," Has Launched a Crackdown on Left-Wing Twitter Accounts". Jacobin. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
Claim: Elon Musk has permanently banned AOC from Twitter (Viral post, 2023-03-06)
Evidence (2022-11-03): On Wednesday, Musk spent time sparring with — and trolling — critics of the $8 monthly fee. That included an exchange with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who wrote, "Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that ‘free speech’ is actually a $8/mo subscription plan." The right-leaning Musk replied, "Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8" (and he pinned the tweet to his profile). Musk also tweeted an image of an AOC campaign sweatshirt, with the $58 price circled in red, with a thinking-face emoji. Ocasio-Cortez later hit back at Musk, writing, "One guy’s business plan for a $44 billion over-leveraged purchase is apparently to run around and individually ask people for $8. Remember that next time you question yourself or your qualifications." Musk also wants to loosen Twitter’s content-moderation policies and reverse its lifelong bans on individual users, although he has promised advertisers that Twitter won’t become "a free-for-all hellscape." Twitter will form a content-moderation council with "widely diverse viewpoints," according to Musk, and he said "no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes." On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that Twitter will not reinstate anyone who was permanently banned for violating Twitter rules — as Donald Trump was following his support of the Jan. 6 attackers — "until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks."
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2020-03-08): Majors has not died. The article originated on a satirical news website.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2019-12-26): On Dec. 22, 2019, the website Conservative Tears published an article positing that Lee Majors, the actor who portrayed Steve Austin in the 1970s television show "The Six Million Dollar Man," died and left a symbolic $6 million to the reelection campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump. ‘Bionic Man’ Lee Majors Dead At 83;$6 Million Left To Trump 2020
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2021-10-20): Donald Trump announced his reelection bid as soon as he took office four years ago and raised more than $1 billion in the 2020 cycle, according to OpenSecrets. This amount includes donations to his official campaign committee and outside groups such as single-candidate super PACs and hybrid PACs or Carey committees. [...] The following are the top donors to the Trump 2020 campaign (2020 election cycle), according to processed Federal Election Commission data.* **They all gave to the America First Action super PAC. Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul, and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, donated $75 million in 2020 to a super PAC called "Preserve America" that ran a media campaign against the former presidential nominee Joe Biden, now president, in order to help re-elect Trump.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-09-13): - ^ "The 'Six Million Dollar' Shark Lee Majors Refused to Jump". Hollywood Outbreak. June 30, 2021. Retrieved July 2, 2021. - ^ "Lee Majors Is Game's Six Million Dollar Coach". TV Guide. September 6, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2020. [...] - ^ Pollicino, Raul. "Lee Majors Come Again: Production Credits". Beastiemania. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-08-05): ");} Claim:Actor Lee Majors died and left $6 million to U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign. On Dec. 22, 2019, the website Conservative Tears published an article positing that Lee Majors, the actor who portrayed Steve Austin in the 1970s television show "The Six Million Dollar Man," died and left a symbolic $6 million to the reelection campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump. ‘Bionic Man’ Lee Majors Dead At 83;$6 Million Left To Trump 2020
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-08-29): The 2020 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was an unsuccessful reelection campaign by then President Donald Trump, who was the president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. [...] Trump launched his reelection campaign significantly earlier in his presidency than his predecessors did. Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan all declared their candidacies for reelection in the third year of their presidencies.[26] [...] Trump's campaign committee has spent about $6.3 million during the first quarter of 2017. That includes giving more than $70,000 to the campaign committee's manager, Michael Glassner, who was Trump's deputy campaign manager, and more than $40,000 to John Pence, Vince [sic] President Mike Pence's nephew, who serves as the committee's deputy director.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-01-03): Trump departed from this norm by devoting funds to a re-election campaign before even initially taking office and filing campaign documents with the Federal Election Commission on the day he was inaugurated in January 2017. He immediately adopted the slogan, "Keep America Great," a modification of "Make America Great Again" that implied, some observers noted, that Trump’s presence as president—rather than any specific action or accomplishment—was itself the key to recovering greatness. Trump held his first re-election campaign rally on February 1, 2017, less than two weeks after becoming president. He continued to raise money and hold campaign events throughout his presidency. He faced no opposition from his party for the 2020 nomination and won all state Republican primaries and caucuses. At the same time, a competitive primary campaign developed among Democrats hoping to challenge Trump, whose public disapproval ratings had remained higher than his approval ratings for nearly his entire term.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2020-04-28): An article shared on Facebook claims actor Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. [...] "Majors left 66% of his sizeable $9 million bequest to Trump 2020 – a representative aggregate of $6 million," states the article. "A portion from his will indicated his adoration for our President." [...] The claim appears to have originated on Conservative Tears, a parody news website that describes itself as part of a network that publishes "parody, satire, and tomfoolery." The article, which put up the headline "‘Bionic Man’ Lee Majors Dead At 83;$6 Million Left To Trump 2020," is satirical in nature and should not be treated as fact.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2019-12-25): The Dec. 25 article, which was published by AJUAnews.com, claims Majors died from complications during a Penuma surgical procedure. (Penuma is a kind of penile implant.) It also claims the actor, who has starred in movies like "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "Scrooged," left $6 million for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in his will. [...] AJUAnews.com, "‘Bionic Man’ Lee Majors Dead At 83;$6 Million Left To Trump 2020," Dec. 25, 2019 [...] Conservative Tears, "‘Bionic Man’ Lee Majors Dead At 83;$6 Million Left To Trump 2020"
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2021-05-21): Has the actor who played bionic man Steve Austin died and left $6 million to the Trump reelection campaign? No, that's not true: The former "Six Million Dollar Man" has not died and donated the amount that was used to "rebuild him" with bionic parts on the iconic 1970s television show. [...] The claim originated from an article published by Conservative Tears on December 22, 2019, titled "'Bionic Man' Lee Majors Dead At 83; $6 Million Left To Trump 2020" (archived here) which opened: [...] 'Bionic Man' Lee Majors Dead At 83;$6 Million Left To Trump 2020
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2020-07-31): A post shared on Facebook claims the late TV personality Regis Philbin bequeathed $20 million to President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. [...] A post shared on Facebook shortly after his death shares a picture of Philbin with a halo around his head, claiming he "left $20 Million to the Trump campaign." (RELATED: Did Actor Lee Majors Die And Leave The Trump Campaign $6 Million In His Will?) [...] While they shared a friendship, the Daily Caller News Foundation found no news reporting to corroborate the claim that Philbin left $20 million to Trump’s campaign. The family also did not mention anything to that effect in its statement to the media, and the Trump campaign has not made any such announcement. It appears Philbin made just two donations to political campaigns – neither Trump’s – since 1975, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2021-02-19): Donald Trump never donated to his own reelection campaign, but he did find plenty of other billionaires willing to write him checks. In total, Forbes identified 133 superrich donors who pitched in for Trump’s 2020 campaign. [...] Here’s the complete list of every billionaire Forbes found who put money into Trump’s reelection campaign, either directly or through their spouse. The donors are grouped by their industries and sorted by the amount of money they donated.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Finances [edit]Trump began fundraising for his reelection campaign immediately after his inauguration, whereas his predecessors had waited years to do this.[162] By September 2020, Trump's 2020 reelection effort, including the Republican National Committee, had spent over $800 million. At that time, Trump had not yet contributed any of his own money to his reelection effort, although he was reportedly considering contributing $100 million. (He had, by contrast, contributed $66 million of his own money to his 2016 campaign.) Bloomberg News said, "it would be unprecedented for an incumbent president to put his own money toward winning a second term."[427][428] [...] Money funneled through Brad Parscale [edit]Between January 2017 and March 2020, Trump's reelection committees paid $38.9 million to companies owned by Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. In the analysis of Democratic political consultant James Carville, "They're all just fleecing the campaign ... Everybody is trying to take everything they can get on the way out."[460] Former GOP strategist and Lincoln Project activist Rick Wilson, noting that Parscale bought a Ferrari, a Land Rover, a waterfront house and a yacht, said the campaign's leaders "are taking Donald Trump to the cleaners".[461] [...] - ^ "Trump already has socked away more than $7 million for his 2020 reelection". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2020-09-24): The Trump administration, like the last five years in American politics, has been a one-man show, and the campaign to reelect him the president is no different. Trump's tweets, his whims (influenced greatly by what he watches on Fox News), and his continued fixation on the federal investigation of Russian meddling, which helped to elect him in the first place, have formed the central narrative of the 2020 campaign. [...] Carr joined the 2020 reelection campaign from Wynn Resorts, where he worked as a government liaison for Steve Wynn, the casino and hotel magnate who once sparred with Trump but later came around to backing his presidential ambitions. [...] Now, the longtime Republican operative has swooped into the 2020 race in its closing months to lead a new PAC, Preserve America. The PAC plans to unleash $30 million in spending,mostly on TV ads in swing states, with money contributed by longtime Trump megadonors, at its disposal.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2019-06-18): President Trump will officially kick off his 2020 reelection bid on Tuesday with a rally in Florida. The event marks the start of what Trump has claimed will be a swift victory to another four years in the White House. But as the president sets out for another year of campaigning, several of his key promises to voters on the 2016 trail remain unfulfilled. [...] But Marc Lotter, the communications director for Trump's reelection bid, argued on CNN that the president's unkept promises to 2016 voters will "make a great platform" for his reelection campaign.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-06-05): The impact of the party’s refusal to rein in outside spending has become apparent. As she competed for reelection this year, Lee apparently became a target of billionaire Jeff Yass, who put $800,000 into a group called Moderate PAC, which helped finance ads accusing Lee of "opposing President Biden" at a time when abortion rights and democracy are under threat from former President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2023-04-25): Leo’s Concord Fund contributed $1 million in 2020-21 to Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit chaired by former Vice President Mike Pence that is serving as "campaign-in-waiting," according to Politico.
Claim: Lee Majors bequeathed $6 million to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign (Viral Article, 2020-03-08)
Evidence (2024-07-17): Those same traits are now on display in Mellon’s political giving. A railroad magnate and scion of one of the country’s wealthiest families, Mellon, 81, is the biggest donor to Donald Trump so far this cycle. He has contributed more than $75 million to a super PAC supporting the former president’s bid to return to the White House — significantly more than he gave in 2016 or 2020. Mellon made the donations without so much as a sit-down meeting with Trump’s aides, according to people familiar with the dynamic, who, like some others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private dealings or avoid retaliation from Mellon, who estimated his net worth at $700 million in the 2014 deposition. [...] Mellon’s largesse isn’t limited to Trump, whom Republicans officially nominated for president on Monday at their national convention in Milwaukee. Mellon has also given more than $25 million to groups supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now running as an independent after first mounting a Democratic primary challenge to President Biden. [...] After contributing only modest sums to Trump’s campaign in 2016, Mellon put $20 million into a pro-Trump super PAC in 2020. The following year, he contributed more than $50 million in stock to an effort by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to crowdsource private funding for a border wall.