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Yes you're absolutely right to question the source! You should always do that
This doesn't have a strong real vibe and we don't really need this example to be true so idk who would try and find the original tweet with success after some already failed
There are so many articles and tweets out there with false accusations that have been debunked, this can be taken as an example meme to easily illustrate the issue with propaganda we encounter in our lives.
Sometimes it is that blatant, like "tank man" being cited as having been run over by tanks going to Tiananmen Square, even though it is easily checkable that the tanks were going OUT of the square in the morning after the riots, and videos of this man exist from the same view point, showing him walking on the tank and talking with the soldiers for some time before going off