Fact-checking website Politifact has accused Florida’s Gov. Ron Desantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw of instigating harassment after she criticized their reporting on Twitter. Pushaw shared an email from a reporter, pointing out what she calls “incompetence and bias”.
In the article, titled “PolitiFact reporters face online harassment; we keep fact-checking anyway”, Politifact’s chief editor Angie Drobnic Holan singled out Pushaw, accusing her of harassing reporters.
Holan said that Pushaw has a habit of posting emails she has received from reporters on Twitter, which they see as an attempt to get followers to harass the reporters.
“Reporters have alerted a press secretary that we’re writing about their boss and simply asked for comment. Within minutes, she’s published the email and slammed the reporters as incompetent, while trying to rally an online mob to attack the reporters – who are just doing their jobs”, Holan wrote.
She added: “Rather than responding to journalists’ press inquiri...
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