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Weaponising Social Media
Armstrong Williams writes about a defamatory narrative spreading on social media, delving into the absurdity of these claims and highlighting the dangers of misinformation in the digital age.
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A defamatory fairy tale is circulating on social media, i.e., Project Veritas aka Project falsitas. I am the fantasised villain like the Antichrist. Hold on for the ride because the concoction will make your head spin.
Once upon a time during the Biden administration, Project falsitas hallucinates, I formed a cabal with former special counsel Jack Smith, President Donald Trump's former United States Attorney General William Barr, and Fulton County, Georgia Distrct Attorney Fani Willis to prosecute Mr. Trump to prevent his 2024 re-election. I have never met or spoken to Fani Willis or Jack Smith. The former Attorney General appeared twice on my television program to discuss his book, One Damn Thing After Another and with Dr. Ben Carson to discuss race in America . I have never had a business relationship with him.
Fani Willis is a stalwart Democrat. Jack Smith was appointed by the Biden administration to prosecute Mr. Trump. Mr. Barr is a lifelong Republican who also served as Attorney General under former President George H.W. Bush. The likelihood of the four of us meeting to plot against Mr. Trump is as absurd as thinking former First Lady Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and Monica Lewinsky conspired to have President William Jefferson Clinton impeached.
But the second chapter of the Project falsitas fairy tale is even more bizarre. It is alleged that I intrigued with Mr. Barr to commit serial visa fraud during the Biden administration by manufacturing phoney companies for supposed impecunious billionaires adorned with yachts yet unable to afford the costs of genuine investments. This takes Pinocchio to a new level. To accuse another of a crime of moral turpitude is defamatory per se.
Project falsitas has its own biblical lying Ananias and Sapphira, Acts 5:4. Its sole source for its fairy tale about me is a Brazilian Jezebel named Patricia Lelis. She is under indictment in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Case No. 24-cr-2, United States of America v. Patricia de Oliveria Souza Lelis Bolin. My accuser is charged with 14 counts of wire fraud, three counts of unlawful monetary transactions, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. She is clueless about the United States, which explains her inherently incredible narrative.
Further, we hired her from May 2020 to June 2022 based on her untruth that she was a licensed attorney. I fired her upon detecting her compulsive fraud and reported her to the FBI. At present, she is a fugitive from justice.
We are preparing suing Project falsitas for defamation absent a categorical retraction and publicised apology for irreparable reputational damage. Before the digital age, Mark Twain reportedly said, 'A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on.' In the digital age, lies go viral throughout the planet before truth awakens to the character assassination. I am proof positive.
Project falsitas' malicious attack on me illustrates the easy weaponisation of social media to destroy professional reputations. It also speaks volumes about the alarming decay in critical thinking that so many believe patently absurd lies peddled on the internet. What happened to President Ronald Reagan's, 'Trust, but verify?' Traditional media feature editors who vet stories for falsehoods before publication. Social media has no corresponding gatekeepers. All the more reason for skepticism.
Armstrong Williams writes about a defamatory narrative spreading on social media, delving into the absurdity of these claims and highlighting the dangers of misinformation in the digital age.
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