Brilliant. If you look carefully at the @truth Twitter masthead, pictured above, you can see their signature line is simply the famous Biden quote, “With all due respect, that’s a bunch of malarkey.” 😂😂😂
Here is their first and only tweet so far, which went up earlier today:
It sounds like the perfect countermeasure to Trump’s constant lying. It’s a joint project of the Biden Campaign (@JoeBiden) and the DNC War Room (@DNCwarroom).
The Biden Campaign has already been using Twitter extremely effectively to broadcast video ads, and sometimes even to live-stream events. They are getting literally millions of views through Twitter.
It’s also impressive that they were able to snag the Twitter handle, @truth!
I will surely be checking their feed throughout the debate. You can, too, even without an account, right here: twitter.com/...
Update 1: In the comments, Mark Lippmann says something very important:
If you’re on Twitter, go to the link and click “Follow” to get the fact-checking tweets in real time.
twitter.com/...
Not only is it accurate — that’s the best, if not the only way to know the moment they tweet a fact-check, but...the higher the number of followers that @truth amasses between now and debate hour, the more terrified you know who will get. It already has more than 111,000 followers, and has only been in existence for about four hours!
Update 2 6:12pm ET @truth has posted a second tweet:
I think it can take a while to get a check mark from Twitter, especially if your handle is simply “@truth”. This is not a big deal and I am still confident this is a real Biden/DNC operation, as I’d swear I saw articles about it in trustworthy places popping up as I was putting together this post. And the graphic design is too good for it not to be real! I mean, come on — upside-down White House is subtle “nation in distress” sign (upside-down U.S. flag) — and that short but sweet video clip — this is real...I am 99% certain.
Update 3: YES THIS IS REAL 😊😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 From The Hill:
A Biden campaign aide confirmed to The Hill Tuesday afternoon that it is partnering with the Democratic National Committee's War Room by using the Twitter handle “@Truth” to identify false statements made by Trump during the debate, which is scheduled for 9 p.m. EDT.
thehill.com/...
Update 4: 8:57pm ET:
The debate is about to begin, and the Twitter account @truth has 220.5 thousand followers and counting...
Update 5: 9:20pm ET a new tweet from @truth:
Update 6: 9:24pm - Trump has been such an obnoxious, interrupting jerk, that Biden finally said, “Oh will you just shut up, man.” It was a nice slam.
Update 7: 9:29pm — new @truth Tweet:
Update 8: 10:42pm ET The debate ended just a few minutes ago, almost precisely as the followers number hit a quarter-million! Trump seemed like a crazed crank, while Biden looked Presidential throughout, IMO.
Update 9: 2:23am ET @truth has tweeted a couple more times since I last checked: