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SubscribeSign inShare this postJournalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twittergreenwald.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 17, 2021Share this postJournalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twittergreenwald.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJournalists with the largestThe New York PostThe Postadmittedwe do not have evidence of Russian involvementThe Intercept treated the CIA’s claims of “Russian disinformation” as fact. The InterceptThe Intercept&nbsp;The New York Times.noneThe New York TimesThe Washington PostThese documents raised important questions about the presidential frontrunner’s knowledge of or participation in his family members’ attempt to profit off of their association with him, questions implicating his integrity, ethics and honesty. Yet those documents were suppressed by a gigantic fraud, perpetrated by the CIA and their media allies, which claimed that the documents were forged and that they came from Russia. That is the critical contextThe New York TimesMother Jones’ CNNCNNBut in this case, many of them went far beyond mere regurgitation of CIA claims. Well beyond it: here, they fabricated a claim that report also demonstrated that the Hunter Biden laptop materials were — as they claimed before the election — engineered by Russia. In reality, the report did not even mention the Hunter Biden laptop materials or allude to it, let alone claim that it was produced by the Kremlin, let alone supply evidence that it constituted “Russian disinformation.” But no matter: numerous journalists united to spread the false claim far and wide that the report confirmed this storyline.Defense OneMSNBCNBC News CNNHuffPostThe Washington PostHayes, to his credit, was one of the only journalists who helped spread this falsehood and then quickly retracted it. He first acknowledged that, upon reading the report, it did not appear that it actually made any reference to the Hunter laptop, and then announced he would delete his original tweet, conceding that the original claim was false. Note how the original false claims go mega-viral, while the tweets which subsequently acknowledge their falsity are seen by very few people:With one of his earliest boosters having jumped ship, Tucker himself, the originator of this lie, first began backtracking while vowing he would never delete the tweet, only to then relent and delete it, acknowledging its falsity. Again compare the meager audience that learns of the backtracking and acknowledgment of falsity compared to the huge number exposed to the original false claim:HuffPostthree retweetsCNNNBC NewsHuffPostDo you see howignore these documents; they are Russian disinformation. journalists Then, yesterday, the intelligence community issued a report that does not even purport to contain any evidence: just assertions. And they all jumped to treat it as gospel: no questioning of it, no skepticism, no demands to see evidence for it, not even any notation that no evidence was provided. They just instantly enshrined claims from the CIA and NSA as Truth. How can you possibly be a journalist with even minimal knowledge of what these agencies do and look in the mirror as you do this?that would prove nothingBut the report did not even claim that. And when some of them realized this, they did virtually nothing to rectify the severe disinformation they had spent the day spreading. These are the people who claim to be so profoundly opposed to conspiracy theories and devoted to combating “disinformation”; as usual, they are the ones who spread disinformation most recklessly and frequently. HuffPostIndeed, when anyone, including journalists, loses their job, it is lamentable. But when one witnesses behavior like what these journalists did yesterday, the only confounding part of the collapse of this part of the media industry is that it is not happening even more quickly and severely.Like this postShare this postJournalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twittergreenwald.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmail575 CommentsFor your security, we need to re-authenticate you.Click the link we sent to , or .Expand full commentExpand full commentNo posts© 2022 Glenn Greenwald ∙ ∙ &nbsp;is the home for great writingThis site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please or unblock scripts

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