For months, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has baselessly claimed sex trafficking is up 600%. Media outlets, including CNN, have failed to fact-check him. But in today’s media swell, fact-checking is a responsibility—not a luxury. @joshlevs.bsky.social explains. - ThreadSky

contrariannews.org • 20 hours ago

For months, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has baselessly claimed sex trafficking is up 600%. Media outlets, including CNN, have failed to fact-check him. But in today’s media swell, fact-checking is a responsibility—not a luxury. @joshlevs.bsky.social explains.

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littleluigi.bsky.social•19 hours ago

ELON is an EVIL GOOF.

cantankerouscanuck.bsky.social•19 hours ago

600%? Was the claim for all of America or just the White House?

prsf04.bsky.social•19 hours ago

He never presents facts. Where are the new facts????But let’s talk about Tates

llamagogo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

CNN is terrible on the whole but reporters today are so timid .. when they know the GOP is lying straight to their faces they shake in agreement with no rebuttals .. press conferences seem like a rally for maga too.. truth is squashed by media outlets not just fox

phan-878.bsky.social•19 hours ago

If Homan wants to grab some sex traffickers he needs to check out the Sec. of Education and her hubby.

marissakds.bsky.social•2 hours ago

CNN is not what it used to be, i used to watch a lot more news from them in the past.

lunchpailchris.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I’d say they should check the houses of the Republican reps if sex trafficking has gone up that high.

dsmithson.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Refugee workers have known for decades that women fleeing their homeland are made to pay w/ sex. A man might pay a few bucks and a pack of cigarettes, but a woman - even a mother travelling with children - must pay with her body too. And sex trafficking exists - stats over time would be helpful.

koralee65.bsky.social•19 hours ago

We need to build a new government where lying and buying don't confer power.

I don't know how, but I'm sure that broad education is a part of it.

Until then, the future looks dark.

theeagles.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Fact checking is the only way to expose the lies and alternative facts from the Trump Administration!

moneyordemocracy.bsky.social•20 hours ago

"Again and again, our major institutions, from the MEDIA to the judiciary, have amplified Trump’s presence; again and again, [they] have failed to name the consequences."

ziggeroonski.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I would fact check everything this psychotic dick was says, he makes up shit trying to justify his job and he can't even catch anybody. That's why they are just grabbing anybody off the street, they can't make their numbers.

outersaboteur.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Maybe he meant his own personal sex trafficking went up 600%. That seems way more likely considering the company he keeps.

craftsandcuttings.bsky.social•20 hours ago

They claim it is up so much but then invite known sex traffickers, Tate brothers, to come stateside. Make it make sense!!!

rsgreen30.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Damn straight

00fella.bsky.social•20 hours ago

He's just a loud and angry man in a suit.

jtbizon.bsky.social•20 hours ago

A loud angry white man. Just like the PINO.

bowzersmum.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The administration supports sex trafficking - see what’s his name Tate for reference. Or release Epstein’s files unredacted for more names.

clalonde.bsky.social•19 hours ago

TBF, Trump has ensured that the Tate brothers & Ross Ulbricht are each free to return to their illegal activities and Matt Gaetz does have a lot more free time on his hands, so it could just be that Homan has information that hasn’t yet been made public.

nrunky.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Bare faced lies repeated by fox news as truth, fox were fined hundreds of millions and just continue

melissaf.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Is that why he brought the Tate bros back?

new-thought.bsky.social•18 hours ago

He should know. I suspect trafficking is a side hustle 4 ICE based on past reporting of family separation.These people always project what they're doing onto others.They have access 2 a large helpless population that few care about and they act like abusers. This is Probability 101.What are the odds

steveperkins62.bsky.social•19 hours ago

To be fair,to continuously fact check a regime that only tells lies is sort of pointless. Fairly safe to presume that everything that they spew is bullshit.

schadenfreude666.bsky.social•20 hours ago

ya can't sell depends...with fact checking....

omneynb.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It's definately up now that they brought the Tate brothers to the usa.

geizlini.bsky.social•19 hours ago

You mean the media that piled on to BIDEN IS OLD? That BARELY covered the assassination attempt?? That NEVER corrected him on tariffs???

That have mostly folded even before the inauguration????

Weird.

lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Failure to challenge falsehoods is not mere oversight but abdication surrendering truth to power while hiding behind the veneer of neutrality. When Homan's fabricated '600%' claim goes unchallenged, journalism becomes not witness to power but its accomplice, amplifying fear rather than reality

dreamchaser4ever.bsky.social•19 hours ago

We can't allow the media to keep misrepresenting, mis-reporting, or non-reporting, like not reporting the protests that are happening. What can we do? They are helping murder democracy.

dreamchaser4ever.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Because it's Trumps media now.