Business Insider's Attempts to Downplay Chicago's Shooting Epidemic Backfires

Business Insider posted a propaganda article attacking Ivanka Trump's efforts to spotlight gun violence in Chicago. They claimed, her efforts "spectacularly backfired" when the city's mayor slammed her tweets on the matter as "nonsense" and said Trump didn't have her facts straight.

The propaganda article stated "Mayor Lori Lightfoot was none too happy with Trump's portrayal of gun violence in Chicago, excoriating her tweets as inaccurate and uninformed " Lightfoot said Trump didn't get the basic facts of the shootings correct, saying: "It wasn't a playground, it was a park. It wasn't seven dead. It wasn't 52 wounded in one incident, which is what this suggests. It's misleading. It's important when we're talking about people's lives to actually get the facts correct, which one can easily do if you actually cared about getting it right."

However not too many people were buying into Business Insiders spin doctor article. As shown below, the top 10 comments were critical of the Chicago mayor and supported the accuracy of Trump's statement. The propaganda article was a complete failure for Business Insider.1

1. 1st published at Wordpress.com on August 9, 2019

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