This is a story about how the FBI came to investigate a joke I tweeted about fake news.
I’m a journalist, and I’ve written lots of stories about the FBI. I don’t think the bureau is retaliating against me for critical coverage. But I’m astonished that the nation’s top domestic law enforcement agency has launched such an obviously frivolous investigation — and worried that other people are being targeted for similarly …
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GOP front-runner Donald Trump tweeted inaccurate crime statistics on Sunday, prompting a wave of backlash on social media.
The image, titled “USA Crime Statistics ~ 2015,” shows a dark-skinned man with a bandana and a face mask holding a gun, and is sourced to the “Crime Statistics Bureau — San Francisco.” It indicates the percentage of murders by race, specifically between blacks and whites.
On the image, it claims 16% of white people are killed by other Caucasians, while 81% of white people are killed by black people.
But statistics from the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation show a different picture.
The statistics that Trump seemed to support had a huge margin of error: by about 66%, for both claims. From the FBI’s 2014 report on U.S. homicides, of the 3,021 Caucasian murder victims, 2,488 of their assailants were white, or 82%.
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