Birdwatch Archive

Birdwatch Note

2023-04-12 07:13:49 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The US adult population is 258.3 million. 1-in-5 is 51.7 million adults. Using a conservative family size of 4, that would equate to ~13 million family members killed by a gun. Yet from 1968-2011, approximately 1.4 million gun deaths occurred. Study is likely flawed. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/united-states-adult-population-grew-faster-than-nations-total-population-from-2010-to-2020.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a-family-in-the-us/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604

Written by 6AAEEE7D5D551F82155BEBD4D3F0459EA33B41550CD226D32336BA21D95225C6
Participant Details

All Information

• ID - 1646048960862367745
• noteId - 1646048960862367745
• participantId -
• noteAuthorParticipantId - 6AAEEE7D5D551F82155BEBD4D3F0459EA33B41550CD226D32336BA21D95225C6 Participant Details
• createdAtMillis - 1681283629038
• tweetId - 1645791657298907146
• classification - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING
• believable -
• harmful -
• validationDifficulty -
• misleadingOther - 0
• misleadingFactualError - 0
• misleadingManipulatedMedia - 0
• misleadingOutdatedInformation - 0
• misleadingMissingImportantContext - 1
• misleadingUnverifiedClaimAsFact - 0
• misleadingSatire - 0
• notMisleadingOther - 0
• notMisleadingFactuallyCorrect - 0
• notMisleadingOutdatedButNotWhenWritten - 0
• notMisleadingClearlySatire - 0
• notMisleadingPersonalOpinion - 0
• trustworthySources - 1
• summary
• The US adult population is 258.3 million. 1-in-5 is 51.7 million adults. Using a conservative family size of 4, that would equate to ~13 million family members killed by a gun. Yet from 1968-2011, approximately 1.4 million gun deaths occurred. Study is likely flawed. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/united-states-adult-population-grew-faster-than-nations-total-population-from-2010-to-2020.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a-family-in-the-us/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604