Austin American-Statesman
The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. It is owned by Cox Enterprises. The newspaper places focus on issues affecting Austin and the Central Texas region. The Austin American-Statesman competes with the Austin Chronicle, an alternative weekly. The paper tends to print Associated Press, New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times international and national news, but has strong Central Texas coverage, especially in political reporting. The Statesman benefits from the culture and writing heritage of Austin. It extensively covers the music scene, especially the annual South by Southwest Music Festival. The newspaper co-sponsors various events around Austin such as the Capital 10K foot race and the Season for Caring charity campaign.
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A tool used by the government to track people who entered the country illegally is being mischaracterized on social media as a smartphone giveaway.
Conservative pundit Nick Adams shared a post April 11 featuring a screenshot of his own tweet from the previous week.
"Joe Biden is giving smartphones away to illegal border crossers," Adams said. "This is an impeachable offense."
Former Trump attorney Jay Sekulow and son Jordan used similar language in discussing the smartphones on their Facebook show. These posts imply that immigrants who cross the border into the United States illegally are given something akin to an iPhone by the federal government for personal use.
The post is partially accurate, but leaves out important details and context. We rate it Half True.