Two outspoken free speech advocates appear to have fundamental disagreements about the constitutional right protecting it.
In an exchange on Twitter, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—who has several times been suspended from her social media accounts for sharing misinformation about COVID-19 and the veracity of the 2020 elections—responded to a thread by whistleblower Edward Snowden decrying apparently incorrect reporting by an independent Russian news outlet claiming he lived in a KGB safehouse near the British Embassy.
England has wanted to apprehend Snowden for the past decade after he leaked information about the government's surveillance programs.
"Bonus points for those who notice the absolutely massive train station and shopping complex full of cameras *directly behind* these knuckleheads' 'safe house,' which definitely sounds like a plausible place for a hunted whistleblower to live," Snowden tweeted. "Deeply embarrassed for these people."
"I used to believe that while the media does make mistakes from time to time, 'most' things you read in the news could be relied on," he added. "Nothing robs you of that innocence like becoming yourself the subject of news. When they write on what you know, errors—and lies—are clear."
Greene—who herself has faced immense media scrutiny over her past embrace of right-wing conspiracy theories—seemed to relate.
"I totally and completely relate and agree with this," she tweeted in response. "The media has lied and still...
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