George Santos Memes, Gets Hit With Community Note, Gets Mad About It

George Santos, noted serial liar, has been hit with a Community Note for posting a meme that has been deemed a lie by the site's community fact-checking program.

Santos was charged in May with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements.

Yesterday, he tweeted an image macro painting himself as the victim of a government scheme to crush the common man, writing, "They're not after me. They're after you. I'm just in the way."

This was subsequently deemed inaccurate by Twitter's Community Notes writers, who popped in under Santos' tweet to write, "They are in fact after Representative Santos, who is accused of stealing money from his own donors, among other offenses." The note linked to the USDA's article on the case against Santos.

While the community note was celebrated by many online, Santos was quite peeved by this fact-checking of his meme, and blamed Elon Musk for adding the note to his tweet.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is also inaccurate, as Elon Musk does not write Community Notes. That being said, many were quick to praise Santos' tweet as one of the site's instant classics.

Prior to Santos' meme debacle, he ran an informal poll on his Twitter / X account asking if he should be the next candidate for Speaker of the House. A whopping 100 percent of participants voted "Yes," as Santos made the options on the poll "Yes" and "Yes."