The conservative commentator, Chuck Callesto, inaccurately tweeted that various publicly available videos of January 6 had been “censored.” Musk amplified one of these claims. Callesto …
on Twitter on Friday: “I was at Capitol Hill on Jan 6. I documented my entire time there. I even live streamed it. My videos received millions of views on every platform. Yet 2 years later Q-Anons take my videos and scream AHA. WE FOUND HIM!”
Callesto has more than 450,000 followers on Twitter, and this false tweet had been viewed more than 9 million times as of Wednesday — though some of the views came after a fact check had been attached to the tweet by Twitter’s “community notes” crowdsourcing feature.
Callesto wrote: “Previously Censored video re-emerges of people resembling ANTIFA IN BLACK CLAD making the initial breach into the Capitol.” He added, as he did in many of his other tweets about January 6, “WON’T SEE THIS ON CNN.”This video had been artificially darkened, making the rioters’ clothing look much more solidly black than it actually was; the original video shows that these rioters were wearing a variety of colors and outfits. That original video was not “censored.
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