Lies about Rep. Katie Porter<\/u> reached millions of Twitter users this week, as the California Democrat’s remarks about how the platform has been used to falsely label LGBTQ+ people as pedophiles were misleadingly edited and captioned in tweets by influential right-wing activists.<\/p>\n
The deceptive clips of Porter’s remarks, accompanied by false claims that she had condoned pedophilia, were viewed more than 2.2 million times on Twitter after being shared by right-wing activist accounts, including Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok<\/a> and Jaimee Michell’s Gays Against Groomers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those video clips were created by Porter’s political enemies, who made it seem as if Porter, at a Congressional oversight hearing on Wednesday, had argued that pedophilia was not a crime but an identity.<\/p>\n Transcripts and video of Porter’s complete remarks<\/a> make it clear that she was saying something entirely different \u2014 namely, that right-wing activists have inspired hatred of LGBTQ+ Americans in tweets falsely accusing them<\/a> of being pedophiles, or so-called groomers.<\/p>\n