Trayvon Martin and Kim Kardashian: A False Twitter Meme
It's a great juxtaposition of the absurd. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26 and the man who confessed still walks free, no arrest. Kim Kardashian was "flour bombed" on Thursday ... and the perp was immediately arrested ... right?
Trayvon Martin and Kim Kardashian: A Twitter MemeIt's a great juxtaposition of the absurd. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26 and the man who confessed still walks free, no arrest. Kim Kardashian was "flour bombed" on Thursday ... and the perp was immediately arrested ... right?- Originally published Sat 24 March at 11 pm Pacific. Updated Mon 26 March at 1 am Pacific. Updated Tu 27 March at 11:30 pm Pacific
Trayvon Martin: The Three-Week Old Story, Politics and Florida's Right-To-Kill Law | The Moderate VoiceWhen I read Newt Gingrich's comments about Trayvon Martin this morning, I was incensed. And not just because of what he said. I was angry because suddenly (yes, suddenly) the nation's political opportunists (yes, Mr. President, I mean you, too) have decided that they need to go on the record about this tragedy.
Kim Kardashian Flour Bombed As Protesters Step Up AssaultsFri Mar 23, 2012 10:10pm EDT Kim Kardashian was hit with a 'flour bomb" Thursday night -- the latest in a series of benign celebrity "bom...- Wrong! According to Reuters, "the perpetrator was detained by police -- then released after Kardashian declined to press charges." Being detained at the scene is not an arrest. [On Saturday Kardashian said she might press charges after all. Maybe she wants to make the record match the Twitter meme!]
- Update No one has retracted their tweets or acknowledged my tweet advising that they were spreading false info. Now there's a fake Will Smith "poster" on TwitPic that has spurred a new round of false tweets.
- Will Smith on #TrayvonMartin .We heard you Trayvon, You were loved, important,and of Great value to the world! RT
- Either the guy running the "RealWillSmith" (not true) Twitter account tweeted this or someone photoshopped it. If he tweeted it, he has subsequently changed his avatar and deleted it.
Will Smith on The Trayvon Martin CaseWill makes a good point, it makes no sense that man that kills Trayvon is still walking free while a women is arrested minutes after she ...
@realwillsmith - 1078 Tweets, 1273 Followers, 269 Following.Sign up for Twitter to follow Will Smith (@realwillsmith).- First Tweets The first tweets do not claim that Kardashian was arrested. And they got no traction (no retweets).
- Lauren (440 followers) 0 retweets, 0 favorites
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I wish the killer of Trayvon Martin got brought to justice as fast as the person who flour bombed @KimKardashian got arrested- But the first tweet (per Twitter search) to claim an arrest was retweeted more than 50 times, even though the Twitter account holder has less than 4,000 followers. And the "this takes the cake" Tweet comes from Piers Morgan. Not only does he get the gender of the flour-bomber wrong, he, too, claims an arrest. And let's not forget. He's employed as a journalist. With 2+ million followers on Twitter. [Don't expect a retraction.] Let's not let a good soundbite get in the way of facts, shall we? It's Mike Daisey, without "harm."
- Message Morphs, Includes Arrest
- Christiana (3,740 followers) 50+ retweets, 5 favorites
- Comedian (90,000) 50+ retweets, 50+ favorites
