False Attack on Ginsburg Is Reprised After Her Death
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After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, social media users reprised a false claim about the late Supreme Court justice — arguing she wanted to “lower the age of consent for sex to 12.” The old falsehood is a distortion of a report she co-authored in the 1970s on sex bias in federal laws.
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A decades-old falsehood about Ruth Bader Ginsburg was aired again on social media in the days following the late Supreme Court justice’s Sept. 18 death.
A screenshot of a tweet shared on the Instagram “politicalward” falsely declared: “Why is everyone pretending to be sad that RBG died? It was GOOD riddance by a long shot, she wanted to lower the age of consent for sex to 12.”
Liked by more than 4,000 users, the post called her “a pedophile sympathizer” and celebrated her death with an apparent nod to the rampant , calling her “[o]ne less Democrat Pedophile to worry about.” The appears to be from a related Twitter account: Its bio links to a website for
