GROSS: Twitter Omits Alleged Ohio Rapist Was an ‘Illegal Immigrant’
Joseph Vazquez
July 14th, 2022 1:00 PM
Twitter’s suppression of key facts of a viral, reported rape incident in Ohio completely upends the platform’s claims that it protects against “misinformation.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly confirmed to Fox News Digital July 13 that a person who allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl in Ohio, Gerson Fuentes, was a “Guatemalan illegal immigrant.” The girl reportedly later sought an abortion in another state.
But in Twitter’s “trending” page item on the story, the platform instead characterized Fuentes simply as a “Columbus man” charged for “allegedly impregnating a 10-year old girl,” leaving the “illegal immigrant” part out entirely.
The Twitter trend highlighted a July 14 Reuters article, which also happened to label Fuentes merely as an “Ohio man” and omitted that he was reportedly in the country illegally. Twitter self-professes that it tackles “misinformation” in part by “empower[ing] customers with credible context on important issues.” What a joke. [Emphasis added.]
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/joseph-vazquez/2022/07/14/gross-twitter-omits-alleged-ohio-rapist-was-illegal
