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A viral thread on Twitter attempts to connect Attorney General Bill Barr with Dominion Voting Systems by claiming that he has been appointed to the board of directors of Dominion Energy, which the author of the tweets claims owns Dominion Voting Systems.
The first—and most obvious—error with the tweet is that the press release included in the tweet states quite prominently that it was released on December 17, an impossibility if this was a recent announcement given the viral tweet was sent out on December 2. Sure enough, the press release was, in fact, published on December 17, 2009. Barr’s resignation from the board of Dominion Energy was announced on February 14, 2019, in light of his appointment to become attorney general.