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The real former student, a man who attended a school where Walz taught, told The Post that they never met. He said he was dismayed to see the video showing someone using his name to make the claims.

Matthew Metro didn’t recognize the face that popped up on his cellphone screen when he clicked a link that a friend texted him last week. But after hitting play on the online video, he was dismayed by what he saw.

“My name is Matthew Metro,” said the man in the video, who went on to describe life as a student decades ago at a high school in Minnesota where Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz was a teacher. Some of the details — including about being at the school when Walz worked there — matched the biography of the real Metro. But the man in the video went further, leveling fabricated allegations against Walz, whom the real Metro said he never met.

Millions of people have viewed social media posts containing the video since it was published Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter. For some viewers, the use of Metro’s name and verifiable biographical details created an aura of credibility around the false allegations. Not so for the real Metro, whom The Washington Post located in Hilo, Hawaii.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So everything on twitter is a lie and a misinformation campaign. Got it.

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk is the Henry Ford of our day, and Twitter is his Dearborn Independent.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon Musk ought to be held personally liable for defaming Matthew Metro and Tim Walz.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

Only if he can be tied to it. Otherwise, the same section 230 protections cover him as anyone else who creates a digital platform others can use.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Always has been.