Michael Tracey
Case #
6147

X (Twitter) Community Notes puts fact check on post about Ukraine-Russia conflict: Independent journalist Michael Tracey shared a clip on X of the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock saying of European military aid to Ukraine, “We are fighting a war against Russia.” Tracey commented, “German foreign minister declares war on Russia.” X Community Notes imposed a context label on the post, saying, “The foreign minister of Germany did not and has no constitutional power to ‘declare war.’ See Arts 65a and 115 of the Basic Law. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0305 If a foreign minster’s use of the phrase ‘at war’ was a declaration of war, Russia would have declared war on ‘the West’ a long time ago. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-already-war-us-collective-west-lavrov-1770102?amp=1.”

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