As ridiculous as this sounds, in all my years of posting online, none of my articles have magically had Nazi symbols in their thumbnails. Weird, right? I should buy a lottery ticket I’m so lucky.
Do you think that’s what Trump is doing? Pointing out the Nazis in the US military? I hadn’t thought of that angle…
But I imagine if I had information about Nazis to post, I would be posting it with something like " this is bad" and not " I’m so proud that we don’t focus on gay people in the military anymore".
Even if that’s true, he still posted a photo of the symbol to his followers. You can say he did it unknowingly, which is debatable (as is your use of “likely” when you don’t actually know), but he did do it.
Further, the Truth Social post was made on 9 March while the actual article (including the photo) was posted in late February. So it seems as though the photo was present when he made his post.
I meant the thumbnail appeared after he pressed “post”, not that the article was edited. I say likely because as a software engineer I know how thumbnails generally are loaded on sites like these. They’re not part of the “post” data, and appear a short while afterwards as the site fetches metadata from the linked site and creates the thumbnail in the background so it doesn’t force the user to wait.
I would say maybe snopes can’t tell the difference between posting an image vs posting an article and have an automatic system generate the image, but what actually is going to happen is the maga people are going to say “see, I knew the fact checkers were biased. They intentionally make bad faith articles like these”
Materially, that doesn’t really matter. Most people are not reading his posts the second he makes them, so the majority of people who saw this post saw the image.
Removing Snopes’s involvement here, the fact is that people generally don’t share links without at least visiting them first. When you visit the article’s permalink, you are instantly greeted with the image.
Since he is so prolific on Truth Social and understands what happens when you post a link to the platform (and he owns it), he likely knew what image would be fetched even if he didn’t read the article itself.
You don’t need to convince me that trump is a horrible person.
However the words used in OPs title are misleading and bad faith. As for who saw trump’s post, sure it matters morally, but it isn’t what I’m trying to point out here.
“Trump posted Nazi era symbols” is disingenuous and doesn’t help our side.
I really think that, in the most literal sense, he definitely did post a Nazi-era symbol to his Truth Social account. You can see it in the source I posted (I don’t know what the live page looks like, whether he deleted it, etc.).
To say Snopes is wrong is to suggest an interpretation of what happened that doesn’t agree with material reality. The image was on his account and he would reasonably have known that it would be there once the link was posted.
He posted
an article withthe symbolThe platform automatically adds the thumbnail, so it was the platform that posted the symbol, and it was likely added after he posted.
As ridiculous as this sounds, in all my years of posting online, none of my articles have magically had Nazi symbols in their thumbnails. Weird, right? I should buy a lottery ticket I’m so lucky.
So you do your best not to inform people about nazis among them?
Do you think that’s what Trump is doing? Pointing out the Nazis in the US military? I hadn’t thought of that angle…
But I imagine if I had information about Nazis to post, I would be posting it with something like " this is bad" and not " I’m so proud that we don’t focus on gay people in the military anymore".
That’s not what you said, though, you were just proud to… not have a specific kind of image in a thumbnail. Which, at best is just virtue signaling.
The point isn’t the thumbnail, the point is literally every other action he has taken up to this point. The thumbnail in a vacuum is just a picture.
Even if that’s true, he still posted a photo of the symbol to his followers. You can say he did it unknowingly, which is debatable (as is your use of “likely” when you don’t actually know), but he did do it.
Further, the Truth Social post was made on 9 March while the actual article (including the photo) was posted in late February. So it seems as though the photo was present when he made his post.
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I meant the thumbnail appeared after he pressed “post”, not that the article was edited. I say likely because as a software engineer I know how thumbnails generally are loaded on sites like these. They’re not part of the “post” data, and appear a short while afterwards as the site fetches metadata from the linked site and creates the thumbnail in the background so it doesn’t force the user to wait.
I would say maybe snopes can’t tell the difference between posting an image vs posting an article and have an automatic system generate the image, but what actually is going to happen is the maga people are going to say “see, I knew the fact checkers were biased. They intentionally make bad faith articles like these”
Materially, that doesn’t really matter. Most people are not reading his posts the second he makes them, so the majority of people who saw this post saw the image.
Removing Snopes’s involvement here, the fact is that people generally don’t share links without at least visiting them first. When you visit the article’s permalink, you are instantly greeted with the image.
Since he is so prolific on Truth Social and understands what happens when you post a link to the platform (and he owns it), he likely knew what image would be fetched even if he didn’t read the article itself.
You don’t need to convince me that trump is a horrible person.
However the words used in OPs title are misleading and bad faith. As for who saw trump’s post, sure it matters morally, but it isn’t what I’m trying to point out here.
“Trump posted Nazi era symbols” is disingenuous and doesn’t help our side.
I really think that, in the most literal sense, he definitely did post a Nazi-era symbol to his Truth Social account. You can see it in the source I posted (I don’t know what the live page looks like, whether he deleted it, etc.).
To say Snopes is wrong is to suggest an interpretation of what happened that doesn’t agree with material reality. The image was on his account and he would reasonably have known that it would be there once the link was posted.