Twitter was criticized following tweets that suggested Glenn Youngkin had white supremacists in Virginia at a rally.
Later, it was discovered that the rally participants were Democrats who had ties to McAuliffe. Later, the Lincoln Project claimed credit for this stunt.
“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it,” The Lincoln Project said in a statement.
Despite the proof that the members of the group were not Youngkin voters, Twitter did nothing to label the tweets suggesting he was responsible as “misinformation.”
This was obvious hypocrisy.
“Needless to say, right-wing groups that perpetrated a fraud like this — causing media figures and campaign operatives to spend all day swamping Twitter with an outright racist lie — would be instantly banned from social media,” Glenn Greenwald said of The Lincoln Project’s statement.
“And don’t even try claiming @ProjectLincolnThis fraud was committed by a person not affiliated with the Dem Party. Other than the fact that @SteveSchmidtSES announced he’s now a registered Dem, their biggest funder — aside from liberal billionaires — is this DNC-associated SuperPAC…” he continuedSome suggested that this group might not be affiliated with Democrats…
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