3 years ago, when a domestic abuser blogging for @HuffPost FALSELY accused me of sexual assault—w/ no editorial oversight—my life/career was upended.
Yet, HuffPost was legally shielded by Sec. 230 bc it was a blogger—not a staff employee. THREAD...https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313511340124917760?s=20 …
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To this day, when you google my name, false accusations of sexual assault come up on the 1st page. Luckily I met the woman of my dreams who instantly realized it wasn't true (and I'm lucky enough to be marrying in less than 2 weeks). But that disgusting lie will permanently...
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live on the Internet for my eventual children to see & my loved ones to have to see. I DO NOT agree w/ Trump that all of Section 230 should be repealed. However, it absolutely should be revised to not give BLANKET IMMUNITY to reckless outlets like
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a person/journalists' reputation and career and face zero financial consequence because a law like Section 230 gives them full immunity simply bc it wasn't THEIR EMPLOYEE who published the defamatory smear on THEIR PLATFORM.
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FYI-there are MANY independent journalists/non-journalists who've been falsely smeared on the Internet that were not lucky like me to have help from their parents to pay for an amazing lawyer—
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others. I chose not to sue the blog author (he has no money & frankly I wanted 2 move on w/ rebuilding my career)-but I hope my story shows that "FAKE NEWS" is not only a right-wing Trumpian threat. It is also a daily threat from irresponsible, profit-obsessed clickbait outlets
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I didn't write this for pity---I wrote it bc to this day I experience pain at seeing the phrase sexual assault attached to my name on the Internet. At the time of the accusation, I was diplomatic and did not state the obvious bc we were living in the early days of
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Where a man was basically declared guilty by tweet damn the facts. But definitively--the accusation made against me was 100% false and the woman made it up (with quite a lot of goating from the HuffPo author and others in a FB chat). Despite this, I support the
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and survivors bc there are A LOT of bad men in the world and workplace and MANY of those accused are guilty of horrific acts of violence and abuse. In my case, it simply was not true but, unfortunately, I was an early example of a herd-mentality rush to judgment. In conclusion...
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I hope people who spend most of their days/lives on the Internet learn to more carefully/closely vet information and accusations of ANY kind--and not merely draw conclusions based on tribalism or ideology or whatever the hot Twitter hashtag of the moment is.
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