After Blowback, AP Deletes Tweet Quoting Trump’s False Claim

US President Donald Trump speaks to people from Hawaii, Alaska, and California during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus October 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brend... US President Donald Trump speaks to people from Hawaii, Alaska, and California during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus October 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The Associated Press deleted a tweet Tuesday that quoted a false claim President Donald Trump made directly and without any context, after getting pushback from some political observers.

The original tweet:

The article the tweet links to does factcheck the claim and point out that, per a 2010 study from the Center for Immigration Studies, at least 30 countries allow birthright citizenship.

The criticism centered around the fact that the tweet presented the President’s claim as truth, when few laymen have the requisite background to know that it’s false.

From the Washington Post fact checker:

Journalists are still reckoning with reporting in the time of Trump, a President who lies or misleads at much higher rates than his predecessors and for whom fact checking is a constant and immediate requirement.

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