Twitter fact-checks Randi Weingarten for seeming to rewrite history on COVID school closures
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Twitter's community notes feature highlighted alleged inconsistencies in AFT President Randi Weingarten's claims that she advocated for reopening schools in 2020.
Taylor Penley is a production assistant with Fox News.
Twitter's community notes on the post told a different story, pointing out a July 2020 article from The Guardian in which Weingarten denounced former President Donald Trump's and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' plan to reopen schools as "reckless, callous [and] cruel."
Another note claimed Weingarten's teachers' union "pushed aggressively at the local level" to keep schools closed until further safety precautions could be implemented and the tweet's final fact-check homed in on how areas of high union influence remained closed longer than others.
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