{"id":43311,"date":"2019-01-30T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43311"},"modified":"2019-01-30T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:41:00","slug":"media-bias-fact-check-smears-wikileaks-supports-western-propaganda-machine%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43311","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Media Bias Fact Check\u2019 Smears WikiLeaks, Supports Western Propaganda Machine\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Media Bias Fact Check\u2019 Smears WikiLeaks, Supports Western Propaganda Machine<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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With the latest US-backed coup underway in Venezuela and Roger Stone\u2019s arrest as much an exercise in theater as the rest of his political career, one may wonder what a critique of Media Bias Fact Check<\/a> (MBFC) and similar sites could contribute to the conversation in our tempestuous news cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We examine the issue now, as attacks made on the credibility of independent media outlets damage the ability of independent journalists across the board to have their voices heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to provide context for this report, we must reintroduce Disobedient Media\u2019s<\/a> recent report on multiple attacks against this outlet stemming from proxies of the Integrity Initiative. The Integrity Initiative was revealed to have been a front organization for British intelligence, and partnered with groups including the Atlantic Council in order to push neo-McCarthyist propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within days of this outlet\u2019s coverage of the Integrity Initiative, the website \u2018Media Bias Fact Check<\/a>\u2018 produced an updated page appraising Disobedient Media as right-leaning, supportive of conspiracy theories, and \u201csupportive of Guccifer 2.0.\u201d In characterizing Disobedient Media as a hard-right news source, a smear lands on not only the writers producing work with this outlet, but also those whose stories this outlet has covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first article cited by Media Bias Fact Check in its report on Disobedient Media is a clearly-labeled opinion piece<\/a> authored by this writer, which focused on the multiple unprosecuted felonies committed by former Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes, and the unaddressed election-rigging of the congressional race in Florida\u2019s 23rd district. In MBFC\u2019s opinion, an opinion piece which decries documented crimes that have cheated progressives of a voice is an example of hyperbole. MBFC omits the fact that the article in question and many other opinion pieces penned by this author have shown clear support for progressives and greens, not the right-wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Media Bias Fact Check\u2019 Smears WikiLeaks, Supports Western Propaganda Machine With the latest US-backed coup underway in Venezuela and Roger Stone\u2019s arrest as much an exercise in theater as the rest of his political career, one may wonder what a critique of Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) and similar sites could contribute to the conversation in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[15091,18022,14851,655,851,880],"class_list":["post-43311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-disobedient-media","tag-elizabeth-vos","tag-fact-checking","tag-propaganda","tag-venezuela","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43312,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43311\/revisions\/43312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}