We find this tweet utterly hilarious, and the lawsuit’s worth a laugh as well. The New York Times has reported that “a specialist in Russian disinformation” is suing Fox News for generating threats to her safety and harming her career prospects. You have to read until the second paragraph of the linked story before they name her: Nina Jankowicz, chair of the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board and self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of Disinformation.”
If Jankowicz were serious, she’d sue everybody, because we all “promoted lies about her” — and by that, we mean, dug up old tweets of hers.
Fox News was hit on Wednesday with another defamation lawsuit, this one from a specialist in Russian disinformation who said the network promoted lies about her that generated serious threats to her safety and harmed her career prospects. https://t.co/AB9SnyZ0qL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 11, 2023
Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers write:
Ms. Jankowicz, a prominent specialist in Russian disinformation and online harassment, became the primary subject of their attacks. In 300 mentions over eight months on Fox last year, she was repeatedly demeaned and defamed in highly personal language, the lawsuit asserts. Hosts including Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo and Sean Hannity said her job was “to silence anyone who criticizes the Biden administration” and possibly even, as Mr. Carlson warned, “get men with guns to tell you to shut up.”
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After Ms. Jankowicz resigned to escape the deluge of criticism — which had caused an abrupt suspension of the board’s activities — Fox hosts and guests falsely said she was fired, according to the suit.
“Even after achieving their stated goal of driving me out of government and ending the board, they kept using me as a punching bag,” Ms. Jankowicz said in an interview on Wednesday. “It shouldn’t be something we just accept — that the most powerful cable network in the world can attack individuals willy-nilly and not face any consequences after they ruin their lives.”
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“A prominent specialist in Russian disinformation” who called the Hunter Biden laptop story a “fairy tale”; look, it’s still up:
Not to mention that the emails don’t need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. Voters deserve that context, not a fairly tale about a laptop repair shop.
— Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia) October 22, 2020
She also retweeted a tweet claiming Justice Clarence Thomas argued that COVID vaccines are derived from the cells of aborted children — also fake news that was retracted.
Good like with that lawsuit, Mary Poppins.
Shouldn't the NYT note that this specialist promoted fake stories like the idea that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian plot? https://t.co/xrka18xyY1
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 11, 2023
"specialist in Russian disinformation"
LMFAO. She's a loon.
— OneFlewOver_USA (@OneFlewOver_USA) May 11, 2023
No I don't think you understand, she's a specialist in *spreading the idea that things are* Russian disinformation, not a specialist in *actual* Russian disinformation.
— GB Swift (@GBSwift1) May 11, 2023
😂🤣 Piss off, Nina. pic.twitter.com/UtAJ79VSqI
— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) May 11, 2023
"Specialist" 🙄 pic.twitter.com/YykbouvoWk
— Its a dogs life 🐶🐾🇺🇸 (@seniordogzrule) May 11, 2023
They showed her videos and tweets. Maybe she should sue herself.
— Laris Vrahimis (@LarisVrahimis) May 11, 2023
They played videos of her that she posted on the Internet.
— Matt Wright (@mattwr) May 11, 2023
Sweetheart did it to herself.
— WarbirdSiren79 (@Blueeyes1979) May 11, 2023
Wait… the specialist in disinformation who was caught numerous times spreading disinformation?
— Bills by a Billion (@Whatdidyousay82) May 11, 2023
Specialist in lying is lying again.
Yawn.
— UncleRocco (@Uncle_Rocco) May 11, 2023
No one cares.
— SoOverIt (@anypigslft2) May 11, 2023
Oh well, if she's a "specialist in Russian disinformation" then her lawsuit must have merit and totally isn't a cynical cash grab attempt by a useless bureaucrat who wants to use government power to silence ideas she doesn't like.
— WaspsWax™ (@WaxWasps) May 11, 2023
Democrats are so out of ideas they are recycling old failures and calling them new
— Defund Ukraine (@DoctorFishbones) May 11, 2023
LOL. The “Russian disinformation specialist” who didn’t know the Steele dossier was fake and Hunter’s laptop was real. But you do specialize in disinformation.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) May 11, 2023
She ruined her career prospects by joining the Disinformation Governance Board — nobody wanted a Minister of Truth in the U.S. She could probably get a gig at Snopes or PolitiFact.
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Related:
Jerry Dunleavy busts failed Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz for lying about NYT puff piece she claims ‘isn’t about me’ https://t.co/10zMTflvRJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 6, 2022
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