{"id":1787371,"date":"2022-12-26T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T00:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787371"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T01:54:53","slug":"ted-lieu-deletes-tweet-after-getting-fact-checked-by-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-lieu-deletes-tweet-after-getting-fact-checked-by-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Lieu Deletes Tweet After Getting Fact-Checked By Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fted-lieu-deletes-tweet-after-getting-fact-checked-by-elon-musk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), deleted a Monday tweet after being called out by Twitter CEO Elon Musk because he posted false information about the latest release. \u201cThe Twitter Files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter Files&#8217; latest release revealed that the Biden administration had pressed the platform to suppress COVID allegations \u201cdisinformation\u201d while promoting the White House\u2019s preferred messaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear @davidzweig: The tweet you cite is in fact misleading. People of all ages at high risk from COVID generally benefit from vaccines,\u201d Lieu tweeted. \u201cPrior natural immunity may last only a few months. COVID appears to be a leading cause of death for children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied to another tweet which stated: \u201c@tedlieu The preprint you linked to has actually been re-written as a result of my critique because it is seriously flawed and inaccurate. You linked to the old version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk stated, \u201cTed is linking to misleading data @CommunityNotes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lieu\u2019s tweet was subsequently deleted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well done <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6rYa3xCtiF\">pic.twitter.com\/6rYa3xCtiF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1607512037583917057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/latest-twitter-files-reveal-biden-admin-push-against-covid-19-disinformation\">release<\/a> Reporter David Zweig sent a Twitter thread about The Twitter Files.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is reportedly \u201crigged\u201d The COVID Debate \u201cBy censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy,\u201d As well as \u201cdiscrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed,\u201d  \u201cordinary users,\u201d Zweig.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in both the Trump administration and Biden&#8217;s administrations were under pressure to suppress COVID details and promote a preferred narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @thefp showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform\u2019s pandemic content according to their wishes,\u201d Zweig tweets<\/p>\n<p>Zweig provided further evidence that the push towards COVID information was not restricted to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others,\u201d He tweeted alongside a screenshot showing the companies involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter Files also cited examples of suppression by bots \u2014 automated intelligence that flagged certain content \u2014 while also outsourcing moderation to workers in faraway locations like the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Contract workers \u201cin places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate,\u201d Zweig.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, content was suppressed even when users cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) own data. Zweig cites an example where a bot flagged the tweet. The post received many replies. \u201ctattles,\u201d Referring to reports made by other users.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dillon Burroughs contributed to the report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) deleted a tweet Monday after getting called out by Twitter CEO Elon Musk for posting false information about the latest release of \u201cThe Twitter Files.\u201d The latest Twitter Files release showed that the Biden administration pressed the social media platform to suppress alleged COVID \u201cdisinformation\u201d while promoting the White House\u2019s preferred &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1787374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,3645,6202,5552,4249,11930,4246,6206,4250,6199,5293,6195],"class_list":["post-1787371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-after","tag-daily","tag-deletes","tag-elon","tag-fact-checked","tag-getting","tag-lieu","tag-musk","tag-ted","tag-tweet","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}