Have we run so out of news in 2017 that we're recycling tweets from 2014 to manufacture outrage?pic.twitter.com/DQ3k67Bvk8
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I feel like the same thing happened a few days ago with the Dylan Roof verdict.
It did! And a bunch of sites wrote it up.
now I'm curious if the errant tweet sparked the story
Absolutely it did
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