How does the Fake News not include Online Streaming Numbers where Republicans blow the Dem Numbers away?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2020
There’s no evidence that’s true. In fact, the AP Fact Check shows how laughable this claim is:
False claims circulated on Twitter and Facebook about viewership between the conventions. “Day 1 of the DNC: 21.4 Million Views. Day 1 of the RNC: 128.4 Million,” reads one widely shared Facebook post.
The AP could find no evidence for the 128.4 million figure cited in the post, which is six times greater than the figure listed for the DNC.
A headline in The Hill did announce, “First night of GOP convention delivers nearly six times more views than start of Democrats’ event on C-SPAN live stream.” The article only referred to online C-SPAN views, which were 440,000 on the opening day of the RNC, compared to 76,000 for the DNC. Those numbers represent a small fraction of the millions of viewers who watched the conventions across multiple networks and platforms.
Of course, the citation from TheHill comes from a debunked claim from Li’l Joey Concha, which he tried to lie about on Twitter.