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Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2022-09-13): It’s a tricky thing to quantify — the tweets still pull in tens or hundreds of thousands of likes from over a 100 million devoted fans and crypto spambots — but his name trends less, and individual takes don’t break through into the wider discourse as often. The last his "insights" got much traction, Musk was warning of imminent population collapse and urging us to have more babies, even though the experts say that no such crisis is forthcoming. (At the same time, we were learning of secret twins he’d fathered with one of his own top executives.) [...] Grimes’ latest tweet, then, can be interpreted as an acceleration of their mutual trajectory. Rather than make the coded references to Christian conservatism that Musk has preferred so far, she’s echoed some full-blown junk science that first arose in opposition to Darwin’s theories of evolution. As the push to teach this nonsense in public schools continues to this day, parroting the idea to a large audience, even jokingly, is kind of wack. And if this is, as I suspect, a trollish game of chicken in which both parties have to keep upping the ante with a dumber explanation of the world we live in, Musk has his work cut out for him. Maybe it’ll be Flat Earth next — he’s always a few years late to the hottest trends.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2019-03-23): "Believing the earth is flat in of itself is not necessarily harmful, but it comes packaged with distrust in institutions and authority more generally." [...] For example, when rapper B.o.B tweeted about his belief that the Earth is flat in 2016, the post went viral. [...] WATCH: Elon Musk tweet leads Flat Earth Society to claim Mars is a sphere
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2020-01-07): - On Tuesday, Musk tweeted there would be "no training required" for users to connect to SpaceX's globe-encircling network: Just point a device that looks like a "UFO on a stick" at the sky and plug it in. [...] On Tuesday, Musk tweeted a colorful new description of a terminal: [...] The addition of a steering motor, according to Musk's tweet, suggests electronic switching alone is not enough to maintain a reliable connection to satellites in typical use cases.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2018-01-29): To be a flat Earth conspiracy theorist takes a special kind of ignorance and dedication. [...] Musk, having tweeted about the sunrise and sunset on Mars, then wondered why there was no Flat Mars Society? Possibly because you can observe from Earth that Mars is spherical, whereas flat Earthers probably haven't seen the spherical Earth from space.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2016-01-26): B.o.B, whom you might know from his hits "Airplanes," "Nothin' On You" and "Strange Clouds," kicked things off Monday when he started tweeting about how he believes the Earth is flat. He also tweeted about why he believes NASA is hiding the truth about the edge of the world. And he shared several meaningless diagrams about the planet including one about flight routes. [...] @bobatl Flat Earth is a problem only when people in charge think that way. No law stops you from regressively basking in it. [...] Alarmingly, B.O.B isn't the first celebrity flat Earth truther. Earlier this month, Tila Tequila, of MTV fame, fired off a series of tweets demanding proof the Earth was round.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2023-03-16): Fact check: No, Elon Musk did not tweet that the Earth is flat The claim: Image shows Elon Musk tweeting that the Earth is flat [...] - Elon Musk, accessed March 16, Search of Elon Musk's tweets containing "the world is flat"
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2023-03-11): "The world is flat and I can’t get past the firmament!" read what looked like an April 25 tweet from Musk, referring to an unfounded belief that Earth is covered in a dome called the firmament. The tweet then followed up with a question that lacked a question mark: "Anyone want to buy SpaceX," it read. [...] Musk has poked fun at the idea that Earth is flat, tweeting in November 2017: "Why is there no Flat Mars Society!?" [...] We rate claims that Musk tweeted the world is flat False.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2017-11-30): Flat Earthers to Elon Musk: Mars is round, silly Commentary: In response to a humorous Elon Musk tweet, the Flat Earth Society stuns the world. [...] The Flat Earth Society replied assertively to Musk.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2023-08-28): But when Musk took over he resisted calls to fire Roth. "We’ve all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel," he tweeted in October, 2022. "My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs." That evening, Roth messaged Musk on Signal, thanking him. Musk responded, "You have my full support," and, the next day, he followed up with a screenshot of a tweet from Roth that described Mitch McConnell as "a bag of farts." Musk added, "Haha, I totally agree."
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2018-02-07): "People who believe that the Earth is a globe because 'they saw a car in space on the Internet' must be the new incarnation of 'It's true, I saw it on TV!' It's a poor argument," tweeted The Flat Earth Society, an organization dedicated to spreading the (incorrect) notion that the Earth is not round. "Why would we believe any privately held company to report the truth?" the organization added. [...] Now, Elon Musk's private spaceflight company has apparently joined the ranks of the hoaxers and liars, the flat-Earthers say. On Twitter, flat-Earth accounts posted about "FakeX" and insisted that photos of Starman against a round Earth were Photoshopped. On Starman's live YouTube feed, chatters trolled one another with taunts about how the video proved flat-Earthers wrong, or was part of a vast conspiracy, depending on who was doing the trolling — flat-Earth opponents or believers. [...] Some flat-Earth believers are motivated by their interpretations of the Bible as saying the Earth is flat. (The organizer of November's flat-Earth conference is a Christian creationist.) Others simply don't trust anything they can't see with their own eyes. There's a name for this, the Zetetic method,which holds personal sensory experiences above all other forms of information gathering. Starting from this mindset, nothing NASA or Musk releases can be considered trustworthy; only going into space to find the curve with one's own eyes counts.
Claim: Musk tweeted that the earth is flat (Viral Post, 2023-03-12)
Evidence (2023-09-22): What do Elon Musk, Space X, the moon landing, the sinking of the Titanic, NASA and UFOs all have in common? Discover how all play a part in the belief that we do NOT live on a round, globe-shaped planet, but in fact live on a long, flat plain. David Weiss of the D.I.T.R.H. YouTube channel returns to explain how extra-terrestrials and UFOs co-exist with this theory, and what or who is preventing this theory from gaining more traction in the mainstream.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-19): Romney’s 2023 Federal Election Commission (FEC) Statement of Candidacy form, filed on Apr. 11, lists his party as Republican. The Utah Republican Senator’s spokesperson denied the claim’s validity in an email to Check Your Fact.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-08-02): Sen. Mitt Romney has sometimes been critical of fellow Republicans and veered from the party line. But an Instagram post falsely claims Romney "threatens to leave the Republican Party and Join Democrats." A Romney spokesperson said there is "zero truth" to the claim, and the senator has filed for reelection in 2024 as a Republican. [...] But a July 19 Instagram post by conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams distorts Romney’s political allegiance, falsely claiming, "Senator #MittRomney Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats." The post has received more than 29,000 likes. [...] Marcelo, Philip. "No, Mitt Romney has not threatened to leave the GOP." Associated Press. 21 Jul 2023.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Still, as Romney winds down his political career, he says he’s still optimistic about America’s future for one reason: "freedom." He insisted free societies will be more successful in the long run. [...] Romney: Politicians are pro wrestlers in disguise [...] Despite all his dire warnings, Romney said he still has hope for the future.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-11-09): How Mitt Romney found himself alone in Republican Party [...] Mitt Romney has made no secret of his disapproval of the far-right takeover of his party. [...] COPPINS: I think that this process of coming to terms with his own role in the Republican Party, and what the party now stands for, was hard for him. There were some meetings where he would openly muse about leaving the Republican Party, and then the next meeting, he would walk that back and say, "Well, I’m not a liberal," and then, the next meeting, he would muse aloud about some of the compromises he had made. He would be a little bit more defensive. There’s something very human about that. There’s not a straight line toward enlightenment. That takes a lot of hard work.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2024-09-25): Mitt Romney’s biographer claims the senator is preparing for what a Trump win means for him and his family Senator Mitt Romney is "seriously" concerned Donald Trump will target him and his family if he is re-elected in November, his biographer has revealed. [...] "He is thinking seriously about what it will mean to be on a president’s enemies list," he told KSL TV this week. "Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he will seek retribution against his political enemies when he comes back to the White House if he wins, and I think Trump means that, and Romney is kind of preparing for that reality."
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2022-11-10): Sen. Mitt Romney condemned baseless claims of election fraud as "stupidly self-defeating and despicable" on the heels of Tuesday’s midterm that left Republicans and Democrats waiting to see who will control Congress. [...] Romney listed several issues that need bipartisan attention including inflation, federal spending, the national debt, immigration and climate change. [...] "Excessive spending and the deficit have been the Republican Party’s bugaboo for years," Romney said. "But like the Democrats, we shy away from telling the American people the truth that the spending problem isn’t primarily due to the annual budget."
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) criticized former President Donald Trump on Tuesday for spreading falsehoods about immigrants and the federal government’s response to devastating Hurricane Helene. [...] Still, despite being one of Trump’s biggest GOP critics, Romney stopped just short on Tuesday of offering an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Democratic presidential bid, declining to join the likes of former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyoming) and Adam Kinzinger (Illinois). "I’ve made it very clear I don’t want Trump to be the next president of the U.S., and you’re going to have to do the very difficult calculation of what that would mean," Romney told a student who asked him what was stopping him from backing Harris.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-25): FACT CHECK: Viral Post Falsely Claims Mitt Romney Has Threatened To Leave The Republican Party A post shared on Twitter claims Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats. [...] "Senator #MittRomney Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats," the Twitter post, which includes a photo of the Republican Utah Senator and has been viewed over one million times, purports. The post does not provide a source to support the claim.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-31): Did Sen. Mitt Romney threaten to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats? No, that's not true: The Utah senator's spokesperson told Lead Stories there was "zero truth" to the claim. Romney filed paperwork in July 2023 that would allow him to seek re-election to the U.S. Senate as a Republican. [...] Senator #MittRomney Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats https://t.co/laex9XuoWm [...] The tweet did not elaborate beyond claiming Romney "threatens to leave Republican Party," and it cited no source or other substantiation for the claim.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-19): Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has not threatened to join Democrats, despite criticism of Trump [...] "Senator #MittRomney threatens to leave the Republican party and join Democrats," read text above a zoomed-in photo of Romney shared July 19 on Instagram. [...] Whatever his decision about seeking a second term, there’s no credible evidence that Romney has threatened to switch parties. We rate the claim False.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-09-18): A viral post shared on Facebook claims Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has purportedly "resigned in disgrace." [...] "BREAKING: Mitt Romney has resigned in disgrace!! Another RINO bites the dust!" the Facebook post, which has received over 2,000 likes, purports. The post does not provide a source to support the claim. [...] Romney also said he wants to get more young people voting during a recent news conference at the U.S. Capitol, The Associated Press indicated. (RELATED: Viral Post Falsely Claims Mitt Romney Has Threatened To Leave The Republican Party)
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-27): The claim: Mitt Romney threatened to leave the Republican party and become a Democrat [...] "Senator #MittRomney Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats," reads the post. [...] - Wall Street Journal, July 24, Donors, Don’t Fund a Trump Plurality - Salt Lake Tribune, April 12, Mitt Romney takes first step toward 2024 Senate reelection campaign - Politico, Dec. 20, 2020, Romney: GOP ‘has strayed’ from what he once knew - Associated Press, July 21, No, Mitt Romney has not threatened to leave the GOP - Federal Election Commission, July 14, STATEMENT OF CANDIDACY FILING FEC-1713522
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-27): The claim: Mitt Romney threatened to leave the Republican party and become a Democrat [...] "Senator #MittRomney Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats," reads the post. [...] Associated Press, July 21, No, Mitt Romney has not threatened to leave the GOP
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-09-14): The claim: Utah Sen. Mitt Romney resigned [...] "BREAKING: Mitt Romney has resigned in disgrace!" reads the post. "Another RINO bites the dust!" [...] USA TODAY has previously debunked claims that Romney threatened to leave the Republican party and become a Democrat, that Utah began officially collecting signatures to recall Romney in 2021 and that a tweet shows a response from Rep. Paul Gosar after Romney criticized his appearance with white nationalists.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-26): No, Mitt Romney has not threatened to leave the GOP CLAIM: U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney is threatening to leave the Republican Party and join the rival Democratic Party. [...] "Senator #MittRomney Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats," wrote one Twitter user in a widely shared post.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2024-09-19): Party leaders are now singing a different tune.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2012-07-31): The anticipated pivot, however, has not materialized. And the anti-immigrant demagoguery he used to wage his GOP primary battle may have cost him the general election war. A recent poll by Latino Decisions shows that Latino voter support for President Obama has actually increased to 70 percent while Gov. Romney’s numbers remain mired in the low twenties—22 percent—in this poll. [...] More recently, in obvious recognition of the dire straits he is in with this community, Gov. Romney has started running Spanish-language ads claiming that he will pursue "bipartisan," "permanent" immigration solutions. This line of thinking echoes comments he made in front of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials in late June, where he told the audience he will "work with Republicans and Democrats to find a long-term solution" to immigration. But what kind of solutions and what sort of immigration agenda can we expect if Gov. Romney is elected? [...] The audience laughed at the proposal, but Gov. Romney’s stance is not a new one. Eric Fehrnstrom, one of the Romney campaign’s top advisors, told The Washington Examiner:
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-07-29): The phone call led to a whistleblower complaint that prompted an impeachment inquiry. Trump stonewalled the proceedings and was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate acquitted him in February 2020, with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) joining the Democrats.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2020-12-16): MITT ROMNEY, Utah KAMALA D. HARRIS, California [...] These are Republicans that are putting country over party. They are being subjected to just horrific threats as a result. This is not America. [...] So we have to move past this, and these cases of threats, they need to be prosecuted. People need to be held accountable for the claims they are making.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2019-11-06): This polarisation leaves moderates little room for manoeuvre. Trump-like figures have abounded in American history and Levitsky and Ziblatt are under no illusions about the appeal of authoritarians and xenophobes to a significant minority, sometimes up to 30 per cent or so of voters. Thus the ‘real protection’ against Father Coughlin, Huey Long, Joseph McCarthy or George Wallace is not the supposedly democratic instincts of the voters themselves, but the now weakened party establishments. The ascendancy of primary contests – far from an unmixed blessing – has ended the era of secret anointments (and exclusions) in smoke-filled rooms. Even so, Levitsky and Ziblatt argue, the grandees of the Republican Party could have done more to prevent the election of ‘a president with a dubious allegiance to democratic norms’. There was plenty of ‘hemming and hawing’ in the upper reaches of the Republican Party, and several key figures – among them John McCain, John Kasich, Mitt Romney and the Bush clan – declined to endorse Trump. But none of them was bold enough to take the subsequent step of endorsing Hillary Clinton. Instead, by closing ranks, the party elders ‘normalised the election’.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2019-09-19): MITT ROMNEY, Utah CHRISTOPHER A. COONS, Delaware [...] Those who are involved in such threats can face consequences from the [...] Mr. Sullivan. To my knowledge, I am not aware of that, which is not to say it has not happened.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2016-11-03): After Mitt Romney’s loss in 2012, moderate Republicans famously issued a detailed plan for the future that recommended extensive minority outreach. But the course the GOP actually chose in 2016 hewed a lot closer to a white paper Spencer wrote in 2011 about a "majority strategy" advanced by racist intellectuals. The strategy urged Republicans to forgo their fruitless minority outreach and instead unite a majority of white voters by focusing on immigration restriction. The GOP, Spencer wrote, needed to accept its role as the "white people’s party whether Republican leadership likes it or not."
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2024-10-02): - ^ Moorhead, Molly (November 28, 2011). "Mitt Romney changes position on TARP, DNC says". PolitiFact.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2020. [...] - ^ a b Burr, Thomas (October 2, 2014). "Despite voter-registration snafu Mitt Romney not shunning GOP". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved February 6, 2020. [...] - ^ Rucker, Philip; Costa, Robert (October 13, 2014). "Can't quit Mitt: Friends say Romney feels nudge to consider a 2016 presidential run". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
Claim: claims Mitt Romney has purportedly threatened to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrats (Post, 2023-07-19)
Evidence (2023-11-13): On the day of the censure vote, McDaniel made it clear that the RNC members are strongly prioritizing party unity, something Cheney and Kinzinger are purportedly threatening with their presence on the House committee and continued criticism of President Trump. "When Republicans come together, we win," McDaniel said at the RNC general session.7 After facing criticism directed at the language in the resolution, McDaniel defended the RNC’s decision. "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line," she said.8 Richard Porter, an RNC member from Illinois, agreed with the political censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, saying, "The nominal Republicans on the committee provide a pastiche of bipartisanship, but no genuine protection or due process for the ordinary people who did not riot being targeted and terrorized by the committee. The investigation is a de facto Democrat-only investigation increasingly unmoored from congressional norms."9 [...] [10] Twitter: https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1489410422172262404?s=20&t=HzA066fMTwFAuRqhuY5BoA [11] Twitter: https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1489611374930141184?s=20&t=QLeXMdTUgkd89Dr4eV6-zQ [12] The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/593013-murkowski-it-can-be-uncomfortable-not-to-align-with-what-the-party-is-saying?rl=1