Jennifer Combs was arrested after making claims in a Facebook post that residents had been hospitalized after consuming the water in Trinidad.
Trinidad officials confirmed that the city has been having water issues, but wouldn’t say if anyone had been hospitalized.
Combs has since filed a lawsuit against the city and several officials, claiming the arrest was an act of “political retaliation.”
Are we going to start arresting people who publish lies on social media as if they’re news?
I’m pretty sure that the reason we haven’t done so is something called the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees free speech and freedom of the press.
If they’re going to arrest people for lying, the city of Trinidad, Texas, should start with people who lie the most and make the most severe lies, like Donald Trump and many of his top officials.
Don’t forget the outrage industry - all of Faux “News”, OAN, hate radio, far right social media “influencers”, etc…