Facebook and Twitter reducing distribution of New York Post Hunter Biden story [merged threads]

[Dashinka 24,727]

Of the bit I heard of Jack Dorsey testifying, he sounded like an idiot.  I would not feel confident as a Twitter employee with him at helm.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 hour ago, Dashinka said:

Of the bit I heard of Jack Dorsey testifying, he sounded like an idiot.  I would not feel confident as a Twitter employee with him at helm.

I haven't watched any of it yet but I can only assume he's playing the "I'm just a dumb founder-and-CEO and I'm too busy to have any idea what's happening on my platform" charade. I have no idea why they keep hauling these people into committees.. just start formulating the necessary changes to Section 230, work with the Trump admin to revoke Section 230 for Twitter, Facebook, etc. I imagine people in their party might also be saying they should be working on retaking the House rather than whining at tech CEO's. Whatever happened to the "principled" conservatives in Congress? They sound like such babies. The biggest damage they can do, beyond changing 230 (which won't happen with Dems in the House), is take their influence to another platform. Why is this so tough for Republicans? 

Edited October 28, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Dashinka 24,727]

10 Ways to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence
 

Adam Schiff says it is!

For the last four years, whenever the Democratic Party has sought to make unsupportable claims, it’s usually combined anonymous leaks to legacy outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post with public statements by a party spokesperson willing to say things on record without evidence. That person has often been California congressman Adam Schiff. Sometimes hinting that he’s seen intelligence he can’t speak of publicly, Schiff has repeatedly made statements that later proved false. 

In March of 2017, he told Chuck Todd, “I can’t get into the particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now” that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to interfere with the 2016 election. He would continue making statements like this for nearly two years, until information was declassified showing that Schiff early on had been told in secret testimony, by people like the aforementioned Clapper, “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.”

In January of 2018, Schiff dismissed claims of FBI malfeasance in obtaining secret surveillance authority on Trump aide Carter Page: “FBI and DOJ officials did not 'abuse' the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign." He was later proved incorrect on all of these points by a report by Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. 

As Glenn Greenwald pointed out, Schiff “fabricates accusations… the way that other people change underwear.”

Of course, no one ever brings up Schiff’s record of wrongness. He gets a clean slate each time, and is rarely asked to substantiate anything he says, as was the case in this exchange last week with Wolf Blitzer, when he used the word “Kremlin” 14 times in one segment:

SCHIFF: The origins of this whole smear are from the Kremlin, and the president is only too happy to have Kremlin help and try to amplify it.

BLITZER: It's not like Rudy Giuliani is peddling this information in a vacuum, Congressman. Take a look at this picture of the president in the Oval Office holding up a copy of the New York Post touting this conspiracy theory. It's made its way all the way to the commander in chief with a big smile on his face.

SCHIFF: Yes. Well, look, I think we know who the driving force behind this smear has been all along and it's been the president and the Kremlin.
 

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/10-ways-to-call-something-russian

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

Tucker Carlson lost only copy of documents nailing Biden

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/tucker-carlson-lost-only-copy-of-documents-nailing-biden.html

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Must not have been that important. I can't imagine if they were as important as stated and an entire story about to be told hinged on these documents for them not to be backed up/copied/scanned.

Edited October 29, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

May not have been that important , or maybe never existed.

[Dashinka 24,727]

49 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

May not have been that important , or maybe never existed.

There is a third option.  Regardless, I doubt we will ever know.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

There is a third option.  Regardless, I doubt we will ever know.

I think we have a fairly good clue. 

[Dashinka 24,727]

7 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

I think we have a fairly good clue. 

Sort of like the clues we had regarding Russian collusion?

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

Here is the thing. Regardless if they agree it's still a major news story. If they think its fake they should report a major event in the US and say they think its fake.

 

The fact they complexly ignore it speaks volumes

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 hour ago, Dashinka said:

Sort of like the clues we had regarding Russian collusion?

Have the walls closed in yet?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

The media is sick.. and one of the few journalists left with integrity is sick of it... 

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My Resignation From The Intercept

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.

 

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

I had no objection to their disagreement with my views of what this Biden evidence shows: as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would. But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.

 

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept

 

Guy is so spot on.. 

 

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American media is gripped in a polarized culture war that is forcing journalism to conform to tribal, groupthink narratives that are often divorced from the truth and cater to perspectives that are not reflective of the broader public but instead a minority of hyper-partisan elites. The need to conform to highly restrictive, artificial cultural narratives and partisan identities has created a repressive and illiberal environment in which vast swaths of news and reporting either do not happen or are presented through the most skewed and reality-detached lens.

With nearly all major media institutions captured to some degree by this dynamic, a deep need exists for media that is untethered and free to transgress the boundaries of this polarized culture war and address a demand from a public that is starved for media that doesn’t play for a side but instead pursues lines of reporting, thought, and inquiry wherever they lead, without fear of violating cultural pieties or elite orthodoxies.

 

 

It's a very long read but worth it. 

 

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

13 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

The media is sick.. and one of the few journalists left with integrity is sick of it... 

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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept

 

Guy is so spot on.. 

 

 

It's a very long read but worth it. 

 

 

May very well be one of the last few journalists with any sense of integrity.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

So what's the hold up? Waiting on the election results to decide how to proceed?

 

 

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Report: DOJ Official Confirms FBI Investigating Hunter Biden for Money Laundering

 

A Department of Justice (DOJ) official confirmed Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden and his associates in 2019, focused on allegations of money-laundering, and that it remains “open and active,” according to Sinclair investigative reporter James Rosen.

Rosen tweeted Thursday afternoon:

EXCLUSIVE: A @TheJusticeDept official confirms that in 2019, the @FBI opened up a criminal investigation into “Hunter Biden and his associates,” focused on allegations of money-laundering, and that it remains open and active today. More very soon on your @WeAreSinclair stations.

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/29/report-doj-official-confirms-fbi-investigating-hunter-biden-for-money-laundering/

[Merle 458]

Well would you look at that.

https://breaking911.com/breaking-hunter-biden-and-associates-under-active-criminal-investigation-by-fbi-report/