At the time I just laughed it off. It’s an absurd little piece of propaganda, but hardly the most egregious.
But, for some reason, it stuck in my head and started bothering me. After 48 hours or so I realized what about it was bothering me, and that it is actually an interesting microcosmic case study on what the era of “fake news” really means.
Everything about this tweet is fake. Everything.
The letter itself is obviously fake. The absurd zenith of the “children being precociously political” meme that became a running joke years ago.
Even if “Charlotte” exists, those aren’t her words, just a rough regurgitation of her parents’ brainwashing. And Charlotte almost certainly doesn’t exist.
There’s no reason to even suppose any physical letter exists at all and it isn’t just a photoshopped CG image. It easily could be.
The tweet itself is also fake – or at least pretend – because there’s no way President Biden operates his own social media accounts. I honestly doubt he’s even mentally capable of doing so. Rather, as Five Times August points out in another tweet, the Whitehouse employs a few “platform managers” and “social media directors”.
Hellbound and Down 