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Blue Checkmarks Delete Tweets Defaming Covington Catholic Kids After Footage Shows They Were Not Aggressors

Ashe Schow

When an edited clip of Catholic teenagers surrounding a Native American man first emerged, it was billed as evidence of racist high school students harassing an Indigenous person.

Journalists, celebrities, and others with blue checkmarks on Twitter rushed to condemn the kids as racists, even though it was clear from the beginning that something was amiss.

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