CNN was accused Monday by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey of fostering conflict for the media organization and documenting it during the Ferguson riots.
Elizabeth Spiers, a Democrat pollster, supported Stelter and CNN, triggering the argument that led to Dorsey’s claim regarding CNN and Ferguson.
“And you are selling hope?” Dorsey tweeted in response to Stelter.
“They’re selling truth, which is hope-agnostic,” Spiers tweeted. “It’s supposed to inform you, not make you feel some kind of way.”
Miss Iraq in the past Sarah Idan responded to Spiers, noting that she knows “even CNN occasionally [sells] false news” because she covered events in Iraq in 2019.
“People need to understand every media is prone to either mistakes or deliberate corruption,” Idan tweeted. ” Do your own investigation before believing what they’re selling you.”
Dorsey seems to agree with Idan, claiming CNN fabricated a fight in order to capture it for their show.
Alex Salvi, a foreign correspondent for Newsmax, tweeted a screenshot of Dorsey and Stelter’s interaction, claiming that the former Twitter CEO was “defending Tucker Carlson.”
“I’m not defending anything,” Dorsey responded, disputing any presumption of Carlson’s assent. Dorsey said that all he was doing was “holding up a mirror.”
