Article 44CSS Giuliani can’t figure out how URLs work, blames Twitter for liberal bias

Giuliani can’t figure out how URLs work, blames Twitter for liberal bias

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Timothy B. Lee
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Rudy Giuliani, who briefly advised Donald Trump on cybersecurity before taking a role as his personal attorney, doesn't understand how domain names work. And that lack of understanding led him to invent a ludicrous conspiracy theory about Twitter.

It all started when Giuliani tweeted about special counsel Robert Mueller:

If someone tweets out a valid URL, Twitter automatically converts it into a hyperlink. In this case, .in is the country code top-level domain for India, so Twitter interpreted "G-20.In" as a URL, linking it to http://g-20.in/.

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