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

Wednesday December 5, 2018. 09:10 PM , from Ars Technica
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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:

Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for https://t.co/8ZNrQ6X29a July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 30, 2018

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 
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