InfoWars: California Green Party “Slaps” “Cisgendered” Men!
Or not. Perhaps you’ve seen this image floating around the Internets today: As InfoWars reports, “The California Green Party is attracting controversy after posting an image on its official Instagram page which promotes ‘free slaps’ to be metered out to ‘straight white men’.” However, when this image came out, the California Green Party didn’t have an Instagram account. In fact, the first time the image showed up on the internet was when it was posted to 4chan. If InfoWars bothered to check the image’s embedded data, the conspiracy site would have found that the file contains no camera information and that all of the identifying data was stripped from the photo. This is usually achieved through photo imaging programs such as Photoshop. Unlike the wildly popular (anti-trans site) InfoWars, I actually picked up the phone and called the California Green Party. I spoke with the California Green Party’s spokesperson, Mike
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- 1Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication63%
- 3Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict19%
- 4Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict19%
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Rani Baker
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Admin
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Marian
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