[10News] "Who ya gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?" He's flailing CALIFORNIA (KGTV) — Gov. Gavin Newsom launched www.californiafirefacts.com on Saturday to address what he calls "mis- and dis-information" being spread online about the recent fires in Southern California.
It was inspired by allegedly false information being spread by Fox News, Donald Trump, and "Elon Musk’s platform," or X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a press release.
"There is an astonishing amount of mis- and dis-information being spread online - much of it by so-called leaders and partisan media outlets who seek to divide this country for their own political gain," said Governor Newsom in a statement. "It breaks my heart that families in Los Angeles don’t just have to worry about the fires but also this malicious disinformation as well."
The website is primarily dedicated to responding to posts on X that the Governor alleges are false, like a Fox News post saying, "Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires."
"A ridiculous lie," Newsom called this in his own post. "We have doubled the size of our firefighting army, built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and increased the forest management ten-fold since taking office."