The far-left novelist told his 6.7 million Twitter followers on July 6 that the popular Florida governor had signed a bill asking Sunshine State students and professors to register their political views with the state. Though when people pointed out that it was a fake claim from an old Salon article, King first apologized, then took down the tweet.
“I deleted a tweet about Ron DeSantis requiring notice of political views of students and teachers,” King announced in a tweet. “That really was fake news. Sorry.”
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Twitter, which selectively cracks down on anything it deems misinformation, did nothing regarding the tweet for a few days before King acted. When the writer initially apologized, he accused his source in an announcement to CNN.
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“I regret having posted the headline without being more confident the story was correct,” stated King, who had retweeted the old phony story with the words “I. Can’t. Even.’ “Salon is usually more reliable. Twitter is a constant learning experience, and I will try to do better.”
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The law DeSantis signed, and Salon botched, asking public colleges and universities in Florida to perform voluntary annual surveys regarding the matter of “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity.”
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Politifact, the left-wing fact-check site run by the Poynter Institute, deemed King’s allegation misinformation.
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“King claimed DeSantis signed a bill “requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with (the) state,” Politifact wrote. “We rate King’s statement False.”
Salon finally changed the headline, which a CNN fact-check further called out as false, this week.
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The 74-year-old author, whose far-left views are well known, is a prolific Twitter user. Earlier this year, he was roundly mocked when he tweeted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had met his match in President Joe Biden, who he announced would punish the Russian leader for invading Ukraine.
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“Mr. Putin has made a serious miscalculation. He forgot he’s no longer dealing with Trump,” King tweeted.
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DeSantis signed the law, known as HB 233, in June 2021. He argued at the time that universities were igniting certain "orthodoxies" while shunning or suppressing other viewpoints.
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The law mandates that Florida's public colleges and universities annually conduct "objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid" polls created or chosen by the state education board. Those polls are required to assess "the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented" at these institutions and the extent to which "members of the college community, including students, faculty, and staff, feel free to express their beliefs and viewpoints on campus and in the classroom." The state education board is required to publish the survey results every year.
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