{"id":57151,"date":"2021-03-17T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57151"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:33:20","slug":"journalists-illustrating-how-they-operate-yesterday-spread-a-significant-lie-all-over-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57151","title":{"rendered":"Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twitter<\/a><\/h3>\n

Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hunter Biden (L) and then-Vice President Joe Biden speak on stage at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Teresa Kroeger\/Getty Images for World Food Program USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Journalists with the largest<\/strong>\u00a0and most influential media outlets disseminated an outright and quite significant lie on Tuesday to hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, on Twitter. While some of them were shamed into acknowledging the falsity of their claim, many refused to, causing it to continue to spread up until this very moment. It is well worth examining how they function because this is how they deceive the public again and again, and it is why public trust in their pronouncements has\u00a0justifiably plummeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lie they told involved claims of Russian involvement in the procurement of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election,\u00a0The New York Post<\/em>\u00a0obtained that laptop and published a series of articles about the Biden family\u2019s business dealings in Ukraine, China and elsewhere. In response, Twitter\u00a0banned<\/a>\u00a0the posting of any links to that reporting and\u00a0locked\u00a0<\/a>The Post<\/a><\/em>\u00a0out<\/a>\u00a0of its Twitter account for close to two weeks, while Facebook, though a long-time Democratic operative, announced that it would algorithmically suppress the reporting.<\/p>\n

The excuse used by those social media companies for censoring this reporting was the same\u00a0invoked by media outlets<\/a> to justify their refusal to report the contents of these documents: namely, that the materials were \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twitter Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it. Hunter Biden (L) and then-Vice President Joe Biden speak on stage at Organization of American States on […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[3717,5437,462,2864,1426],"class_list":["post-57151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-disinformation","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-journalism","tag-lies","tag-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57151","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=57151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57154,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57151\/revisions\/57154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}