{"id":577258,"date":"2021-06-30T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577258"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:50:18","slug":"fact-check-did-the-world-economic-forum-send-this-tweet-about-the-age-of-consent-infringing-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-world-economic-forum-send-this-tweet-about-the-age-of-consent-infringing-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The World Economic Forum Send This Tweet About The Age Of Consent \u2018Infringing On Human Rights\u2019?"},"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\">38<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-the-world-economic-forum-send-this-tweet-about-the-age-of-consent-infringing-on-human-rights%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=577258&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Economic-Forum-scaled-e1625065053739.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQdTdbmtbOj\/\">shared on Instagram<\/a> claims to show a tweet from the World Economic Forum (WEF) about how age of consent laws \u201cmay be infringing on human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQdTdbmtbOj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-7.360824742268\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of the WEF sending this tweet.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The WEF is an international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/about\/world-economic-forum\">organization<\/a> that \u201cengages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas,\u201d according to its website. Now, an Instagram post shows what appears to be a screen grab of a tweet from the WEF\u2019s verified Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the age of consent be lowered to 13 or less?\u201d the purported tweet reads. \u201cHow age of consent laws may be infringing on human rights.\u201d The alleged tweet seemingly includes a link to the WEF website. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/01\/fact-check-bill-gates-klaus-schwab-covid-greater-control-mankind\/\">(RELATED: Did Bill Gates And Klaus Schwab Make These Statements About How COVID-19 Will Lead To Greater \u2018Control\u2019 Over Mankind?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no record, however, of the WEF sending such a tweet. Check Your Fact searched the WEF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=age%20of%20consent%20(from%3AWEF)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verified Twitter account<\/a> but found no instances of the tweet shown in the Instagram post. An <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210624182233\/https:\/twitter.com\/wef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived screen grab<\/a> of the WEF\u2019s Twitter page from June 24, the day after the alleged screen grab was shared on Instagram, likewise shows no tweet questioning whether the age of consent should be lowered.<\/p>\n<p>The supposed WEF article linked in the fake tweet could not be found on the organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/search?query=age+of+consent\">website<\/a> either. The link <a href=\"https:\/\/wef.ch\/tty56dX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does not lead<\/a> to any article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never [written] such an article,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alem-tedeneke-5ab30632\/\">Alem Tedeneke<\/a>, a spokesperson for the WEF, told Check Your Fact in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The WEF, and its founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/about\/klaus-schwab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klaus Schwab<\/a>, have previously been the subject of viral misinformation. Check Your Fact in March <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/03\/fact-check-klaus-schwab-tweet-world-economic-forum-ensure-people-survive-food-shortages\/\">debunked<\/a> the baseless claim that Schwab sent a tweet about the WEF working with the Biden administration to \u201censure that most people will survive the coming food shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Instagram claims to show a tweet from the World Economic Forum (WEF) about how age of consent laws \u201cmay be infringing on human rights.\u201d Verdict: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313728,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Economic-Forum-scaled-e1625065053739.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did The World Economic Forum Send This Tweet About The Age Of Consent \u2018Infringing On Human Rights\u2019?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Economic-Forum-scaled-e1625065053739.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did The World Economic Forum Send This Tweet About The Age Of Consent \u2018Infringing On Human Rights\u2019?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577258","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}