'Cutting into his revenue': MAGA influencer whines about losing money due to fact checks
MAGA rabble-rouser @catturd2 is crowing about his cash flow.
"So this is happening right now - I’m getting community notes on anything that gets a bunch of views," reads a tweet from Friday. "Even if they basically agree with me … this is how the left tries to get that tweet demonetized."
Community Notes are Twitter/X's effort to perform crowdsourced moderation and fact-checks.
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The Twitter/X handle boasting 2 million followers belonging to an everyman comedian and poop-inspired mischief-maker of the MAGA movement, relies on expressing commentaries that question the FBI’s tentacles, chem trails, and pronoun raging.
But apparently the trolling is taxing some of his profits.
It's unclear exactly how much the jokester is losing specifically, however in a separate tweet, he did note there's been some attrition.
"I lost 4,000 followers today but I’m totally fine with that to purge the bots (as announced on X)," it reads.
Journalist David Corn pointed out that some of the cockamamie claims made by the @catturd2 creator didn't pass the smell test and perhaps there shouldn't be too much shock that there's consequences.
"Hard to believe @catturd2 was spreading scientific misinformation about an important public health issue," he responded after learning about the supposed money woes.
Corn pointed to a post where @catturd2 weighed including a supposed 2008 snippet from a paper published by former Director of NIAID Dr. Anthony Fauci suggesting many deaths back in the early 1900s weren't tied specifically to sickness but the harm caused by protective measures — masks — that were used to fend spread.
"They discovered that most of the victims of the Spanish Flu didn't die form the Spanish Flu," a circled portion of a screen grab reads. "They died from bacteria pneumonia. And the bacterial pneumonia was caused by.... Wait for it, wait for it... wearing masks."
Defense attorney and liberal activist Ron Filipkowski said the fact checks were "cutting in to his revenue."