Twitter Fact Checks Viral Tweets Misidentifying Officer Involved In George Floyd’s Death

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Twitter is continuing to issue fact checks after angering President Donald Trump

As the Trump administration prepares to issue an executive order on social media following Twitter’s fact checking of two of the president’s tweets, the company is continuing its fact checking operations, taking action on a viral tweet from actor and rapper Ice Cube falsely claiming that a man wearing a racist hat is the officer involved in the death of George Floyd....

The photo quickly went viral and was shared by rapper and actor Ice Cube, whose tweet with the inaccurate photo has nearly 51,000 retweets . Hundreds of tweets containing the photo now include a label reading “manipulated media,” which links users to a

 

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