In its most common context on Reddit, the screenshot was labeled as a fake tweet. Marjorie Taylor Greene circulated on Reddit and Twitter. In February 2023, a tweet about dinosaurs and dragons attributed to right-wing conspiracist Rep. PARODY Retired Hospice Nurse Aquarian ♒️ Cat Rescuer □ She/Her BLM □️□ ATHEIST Schrödinger Fan □DM’s unless you know me □BITCOIN □□♀️□□□□♀️□□♀️ /BO47OT5NmcĪ Twitter bio for the account that originally posted the fake tweet read: We located one iteration that was slightly older than the r/WhitePeopleTwitter version: Satirical tweets like the “dragons” screenshot often originated on Reddit’s r/ToiletPaperUSA subreddit, but we were unable to find a version of the submission there. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. This post has been marked as Satire, meaning it is not a real tweet. At the top of the thread, a “stickied” comment from u/AutoModerator reminded users the tweet was fabricated: Let’s just call this woman what she is: stupid AFīy u/OrangeCone2011 in WhitePeopleTwitterįrom that post, the image traveled across Reddit - but the flair attached to it didn’t. Although the title described Greene as “stupid AF,” flair appended to the post marked it as “Satire/Fake Tweet”: A similar search using Google Lens returned a handful of matches, primarily on Reddit and Twitter.Īt the bottom of the tweet embedded above, text indicated the appended image originated on Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter. “Breakout” levels of popularity were indicated for searches including “Marjorie Taylor Greene dragons,” “Marjorie Taylor Greene Twitter,” “Marjorie Taylor Greene dinosaur,” “Marjorie Taylor Greene dinosaurs,” and “MTG Twitter”:Ī reverse image search using TinEye returned zero matches to the image of the tweet. Google Trends data indicated that the tweet was circulating. The land dragons were killed out a couple thousand years ago (maybe a few still hidden somewhere?), but ocean dragons still exist. Some of the bones displayed are real, but others are know forgeries. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Renewable Energy: ‘I Don’t Want to Have to Go to Bed When the Sun Sets’
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