The Daily Wire has contacted The A.V. Club saying, “those screenshots have been falsified, and since they are the entire premise of the story, we are requesting an immediate, full retraction and an apology from your publication. To be clear: Ben has never DM’d @Seinfeld2000, nor has he blocked that account. The exchange is a pure fabrication.” We have reached out to the admin of the @Seinfeld2000 account asking for corroboration. We here at The A.V. Club would, of course, never aim to present satire as factual events, and will update this story accordingly as we get more reporting. For now, we’ve tweaked the final paragraph of this story to reflect that the rep says the DM screengrabs are satire.]