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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.
Journalists with the largest and 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 justifiably plummeted.
The lie they told involved claims of Russian involvement in the procurement of Hunter Biden's laptop. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election,
The New York Post obtained that laptop and published a series of articles about the Biden family's business dealings in Ukraine, China and elsewhere.
In response, Twitter banned the posting of any links to that reporting and locked The Post out of its Twitter account for close to two weeks, while Facebook, through a long-time Democratic operative, announced that it would algorithmically suppress the reporting.
The excuse used by those social media companies for censoring this reporting was the same
invoked by media outlets to justify their refusal to report the contents of these documents: namely, that the materials were "Russian disinformation." That claim of "Russian disinformation" was concocted by a group of
several dozen former CIA officials and other operatives of the intelligence community devoted to defeating Trump. Immediately after
The Post published its first story about Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine that traded on his influence with his father, these career spies and propagandists, led by Obama CIA Director and serial liar John Brennan, published
a letter asserting that the appearance of these Biden documents "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
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