{"id":1924051,"date":"2023-05-04T05:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-users-set-the-record-straight-after-politifact-says-randi-weingarten-advocated-for-reopening-schools-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:44:08","slug":"twitter-users-set-the-record-straight-after-politifact-says-randi-weingarten-advocated-for-reopening-schools-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-users-set-the-record-straight-after-politifact-says-randi-weingarten-advocated-for-reopening-schools-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter corrects Politifact on Randi Weingarten&#8217;s stance on school reopening during pandemic."},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftwitter-users-set-the-record-straight-after-politifact-says-randi-weingarten-advocated-for-reopening-schools-during-pandemic%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=1924051&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--><h2>Twitter Users Debunk Politifact&#8217;s Claim About Randi Weingarten Advocating for School Reopening During COVID<\/h2>\n<p>Politifact faced backlash on Twitter after misrepresenting American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten&#8217;s stance on reopening schools during the pandemic. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-users-set-the-record-straight-after-politifact-says-randi-weingarten-advocated-for-reopening-schools-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"Twitter corrects Politifact on Randi Weingarten's stance on school reopening during pandemic.\">fact-checking organization claimed<\/a> that Weingarten advocated for reopening schools without safety measures, but Twitter users quickly debunked this claim using the Community Notes feature. <\/p>\n<h3>Community Notes: A Crowd-Based Solution to Misleading Tweets<\/h3>\n<p>Community Notes allows Twitter users to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading tweets without relying on third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-facebook-reveals-how-it-suppresses-articles-protecting-leftist-legacy-media\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Facebook Reveals How It Suppresses Articles, Protecting Leftist Legacy Media\">-party fact-checking organizations<\/a> like Politifact. In this case, users added a list of articles from The Guardian, The New York Times, and Education Week that invalidated both Weingarten and Politifact&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten herself denied extending COVID lockdowns or improperly influencing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s pandemic response policies. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barcodes-bookbags-microsoft-teams-up-with-schools-to-create-covid-daily-pass-for-kids\/\" title=\"Barcodes &#038; Bookbags: Microsoft Teams Up With Schools To Create Covid \u2018Daily Pass\u2019 For Kids\">schools remained closed<\/a> for several months, causing massive learning losses and detrimental mental health issues for students of all ages.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Elon Musk&#8217;s Community Notes: Fighting Against Censorship and Disinformation<\/h3>\n<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk introduced Community Notes after his $44 billion purchase of the platform in October 2022. The feature has since been used to combat censorship and disinformation campaigns by the U.S. government and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vote-republican-joe-rogan-tells-americans-to-swing-red-after-serious-errors-made-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"\u2018Vote Republican:\u2019 Joe Rogan Tells Americans To Swing Red After \u2018Serious Errors\u2019 Made During Pandemic\">legacy media corporations<\/a>. Despite criticism from these entities, citizens praise Community Notes for restoring balance and combating actual disinformation. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The power of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CommunityNotes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CommunityNotes<\/a> to combat actual disinformation is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, it requires people with diverse viewpoints to agree that a note is valid before it is shown.<\/p>\n<p>Very hard to game and fully open source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1653576996876853249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk himself praised the feature for its ability to combat disinformation, stating that it requires people with diverse viewpoints to agree on the validity of a note before it is shown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users debunked a claim made by Politifact on Wednesday about\u00a0American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, contending she advocated for reopening schools during COVID. Community Notes, a feature on Twitter that allows a crowd-based solution to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading Tweets without third-party groups, such as the American nonprofit group Politifact, fact-checked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1924052,"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":[19577,4828,8159,25300,4546,3924,15427,4253,25785],"class_list":["post-1924051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-corrects","tag-pandemic","tag-politifact","tag-randi","tag-reopening","tag-school","tag-stance","tag-twitter","tag-weingartens"],"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\/1924051","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}