Tuesday, November 1, 2022

From Hunter Biden to the Wuhan lab-leak theory, eight times the media admitted it got a major narrative wrong

 "The Hunter Biden laptop was ‘Russian disinformation’. With less than a month to go before the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post dropped a noteworthy story: Emails showing that Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden, introduced a Ukrainian businessman to his powerful father, raising potential concerns of influence-peddling on the former vice president. The source was a laptop that Biden had apparently dropped off in a Delaware repair shop and never picked up.  But mainstream media outlets and Big Tech companies not only cast doubt on its provenance, they actively worked to suppress the story that appeared to benefit President Trump. It was widely dismissed as unreliable and even Russian disinformation by mainstream print and television outlets, especially MSNBC and CNN, and in an astonishing display of coordination, Twitter and Facebook blocked or limited sharing of the New York Post's article about Biden;"