Actor Rob Reiner was fact checked by 'Community Notes' on X, formerly known as Twitter, after he falsely claimed Tarrio had 'violently stormed' the U.S. Capitol on January 6, when the fact is that the Proud Boys leader wasn't in Washington, D.C. that day.
Actor Rob Reiner was fact checked by “Community Notes” on X, formerly known as Twitter, after spreading a lie about January 6 prisoner and Proud Boys leader, Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday. The actor falsely claimed that Tarrio had “violently stormed” the U.S. Capitol on January 6, when the fact is that the Proud Boys leader wasn’t in Washington, D.C. that day.
The leader of the Proud Boys was sentenced to 22 years in Federal Prison for violently storming the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the Government. He never would have been at the Capitol had it not been for Donald Trump. You do the math.star, however, was spreading false information in his X post, and was swiftly fact checked via the platform’s “Community Notes” feature, in which other social media users add context to a post that might contain falsehoods.
The Community Notes then goes on to cite an article by ABC News, which correctly states that Tarrio was was not present during the riots on Capitol Hill.As Breitbart News, Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on Tuesday, was not in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, due to his arrest in the city two days prior for allegedly defacing a Black Lives Matter banner. Instead, the Proud Boys leader spent most of that day in a Baltimore hotel.
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