Tuesday, August 30, 2022

New York Times Amplifies Misinformation Group’s Talking Points To Smear Truth Social As QAnon Haven (Connecting the Dots: New York Times, Kamala Harris, Hunter Biden, Aspen Strategy Group & Soros Funded Think Tanks All Networking Against American Citizens)

New York Times Amplifies Misinformation Group’s Talking Points To Smear Truth Social As QAnon Haven (Connecting the Dots:  New York Times, Kamala Harris, Hunter Biden, Aspen Strategy Group & Soros Funded Think Tanks All Networking Against American Citizens)

The Federalist.com

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE

AUGUST 29, 2022

https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/29/new-york-times-amplifies-misinformation-groups-talking-points-to-smear-truth-social-as-qanon-haven/

The New York Times amplified the influence of a few dozen identified “QAnon” users active on former President Donald Trump’s social media platform on Monday after they were purged from establishment forums run by Big Tech.

Truth Social, the Times claims, is problematic for its commitment to foster open dialogue in contrast to websites like Twitter and Facebook, which are hellbent on dictating the narrative through overt censorship. At the core of its analysis, the paper relied on data from the ideologically driven, pro-censorship browser extension NewsGuard to form the basis of its hit piece.

“NewsGuard, a media watchdog that analyzes the credibility of news outlets, found 88 users promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory on Truth Social, each to more than 10,000 followers,” the Times wrote in the second paragraph. “Of those accounts, 32 were previously banned by Twitter.”

Heaven forbid users banned from Twitter, including the former president himself, build and use an alternative platform.

Meanwhile, NewsGuard continues to score legacy outlets that dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story (which was also prohibited on Twitter) as disinformation with perfect credibility, while it gives outlets such as the New York Post and The Federalist dismal grades.

Extremists, of course, permeate virtually every corner of the internet, including Twitter and Facebook, which each fostered the same so-called extremist chatter that Silicon Valley giants used as justification for banning Parler, an early free speech alternative to Twitter. Parler still exists, but it is no longer accessible on app stores from either Apple or Google. The company was also down for weeks after it was kicked from Amazon Web Services.

The Times piece on Monday comes straight from the Parler playbook, wherein Big Tech-aligned media censors complain that competitors harbor dangerous content in order to justify their destruction, just in time for midterms. The paper’s partnership with NewGuard seeks to accomplish exactly that, even complaining that Truth Social did not respond to NewsGuard’s report highlighting 88 extremists on a platform of more than half a million users.

“Truth Social did not respond to questions about NewsGuard’s findings,” the Times wrote. “Instead, in a statement sent through a representative, the social media platform said that it had ‘reopened the internet and given the American people their voice back.'”

Below is the full statement Truth Social sent to the Times, which it then shared with The Federalist:

Lacking any sense of humor, irony, or basic common sense, and having zealously promoted the Russia collusion hoax, the Russian bounties hoax, and countless other ludicrous fabrications, the New York Times is the last media company on Earth that should be accusing anyone else of spreading conspiracy theories — by contrast, Truth Social has reopened the Internet and given the American people their voice back. If the Times has any dignity left, it should return its Pulitzers and apologize for their continued slander and defamation of Truth Social.

NewsGuard’s board of advisers includes former CIA Director

Michael Hayden, who earlier this month called Republicans the most “dangerous” political force ever to face the country. NewsGuard’s censorship browser is also being employed in schools to indoctrinate students about which news sources are acceptable, despite the misinformation group’s own track record of amplifying misinformation.

Connecting the Dots:

Steven L. Rattner was an economic correspondent for the New York Times and is a director at the New America Foundation.

David B. Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times and a director at the New America Foundation.

Jonathan Soros is a director at the New America Foundation and George Soros’s son.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is Jonathan Soros’s father, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Leslie H. Gelb is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, was a board member for the International Crisis Group, a reporter, columnist & op-ed page editor for the New York Times and an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project.

Kamala D. Harris is an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, an advisory board member for the Center for National Policy and vice president of the Joseph R. Biden Jr administration.

R. Hunter Biden is a director at the Truman National Security Project, a director at the Center for National Policy and Joseph R. Biden Jr’s son.

Madeleine K. Albright was an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, the president of the Center for National Policy and a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.

Nicholas Kristof is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and a columnist for the New York Times.

David E. Sanger is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times.

Carla Anne Robbins is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and was a deputy editorial page editor for the New York Times.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy and an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project.

Leslie H. Gelb is an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy, an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, was a reporter, columnist & op-ed page editor for the New York Times, a board member for the International Crisis Group and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.

George Soros is a board member for the International Crisis Group and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.

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