Rep. Rashida Tlaib was the subject of a fact check by Twitter's revamped 'community notes' system, which took issue with the Democrat calling Israel an 'apartheid state.'
, who announced last month that there would be"no exceptions" to fact checks for those who post"materially false statements on this platform." Musk pointed out that anyone could be fact checked under the system, including heads of states and even the billionaire owner himself.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., right, listens as Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference about Islamophobia on Capitol Hill. The fact check of Tlaib, a high-profile Democratic member of the progressive"Squad," comes after conservatives have long argued social media companies unfairly target conservative views for arbitrary fact checks and bans, something that is evidently changing at Twitter under the leadership of Musk., including former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who argued Michigan Democrat was"a bit off" on the facts.
"You’re a bit off on this congresswoman," Friedman said in a response on Twitter."Actually, the State of Israel was born notwithstanding the unsuccessful Palestinian attempts at ethnic cleansing to remove the Jews, through acts of terror and collaboration with Hitler ."Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter
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