re: #239 Vicious Babushka

The thing is they don’t even know these are Fake Quotes. Whenever I correct a Fake Quote and provide a link, the most frequent response is AIIIIEEEEEE!!!! BLOCK TEH LIBRUL!!11!!!!

Sometimes wingnuts will attempt to argue with me, saying “Well OK maybe Jefferson didn’t say it but ITZ STILL TEH TROOF!!11!!!1 or U CANT TRUST TEH SNOAPS!!!1111

TWICE people have said “OH thank you, I totally did not know that!”

The popup I suggest regarding the fake quotes from the service itself would be impossible to block as a scary liberal, which might drive the liars away, whether they realize they’re lying or are too stupid to know they lie.

They could then set up a ConservaTwitter in response to deciding that Twitter itself is a tricksy Liberal, where every tweet is a lie.

The fact that only two people have thanked you for your help instead of responding as scared tribalists, says to me that our vigilance about fake quotes does no good beyond the awesome entertainment we all get from your Twitter monitoring.