To say that the legacy media hasn't covered itself in glory during the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be an understatement. News outlets have been fast out the door to blast out news talking points delivered to them by the Palestinian terror group Hamas while it seems to take forever for any correction to work its way through the system once it becomes clear that Hamas has shockingly been lying. Apparently, Elon Musk and the folks at Twitter HQ have taken notice of the more egregious examples of this coming out of The New York Times because as of this morning, Twitter seems to have stripped the 'Verified Organization' badge from the New York Times' profile.
🚨 Breaking: @elonmusk removed New York Times' verification badge, following a flood of false information it published on the Israel-Gaza war 👇 pic.twitter.com/qljbsNRhlN
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 20, 2023
Now it's fully possible that the New York Times chose to pull down their own verification badge, although it's hard to imagine why they would do it, especially unannounced. It's unclear when exactly this occurred or, assuming it was Musk behind this decision if other media organizations should look to see similar action taken if Musk feels that they're not maintaining journalistic ethics. But let's set aside the possible long-term implications of the move and just revel in the fun it provides, shall we?
Oh, snap.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 20, 2023
Game on. https://t.co/KicgqI5aCN
There's needs to be a badge for Communist Fake News.
— Ultra Grateful Calvin 🇺🇸🐶🏒 🎶 (@shoveitjack) October 20, 2023
I'm thinking the hammer and sickle will work just fine.
New York Times lied and said
— Savannah (@BasedSavannah) October 20, 2023
that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza and used a photo of a building in a different location to make it look like a hospital. They also made stealth edits to headlines 3x in one day to cover their lies about the hospital bombing. pic.twitter.com/gKIVtLplyo
They literally had an image of a completely different building on their front page. They don’t deserved to be verified.
— Trixi Qui (@chicatrixy) October 20, 2023
Of course, some feel that this doesn't go far enough.
Damn. LMAOOO! When journalists of that magnitude get stripped…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Your Name 👧🏻 Biological Female (@Kelleyannlyt) October 20, 2023
When does he strip Joes check? He’s been fact checked likely more than anyone. 💀 😂
It's about time someone started holding the fake news accountable.@elonmusk, now do ABC, BBC and CBC. https://t.co/eDueqJ765D
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) October 20, 2023
If we’re gonna do that, the AP should be included https://t.co/Obk3AirQvb
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) October 20, 2023
Even Bavarians are chiming in with their own news sources they'd like to see given the same treatment!
Next step the German government broadcasters @ARDde & @ZDF.
— DerB (@ergroovt) October 20, 2023
They are FakeNews slingshots, @elonmusk. https://t.co/BhhYe3tOKO
And Canadians! Truly an item of international interest!
Perfect! 🤣🤣👏
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) October 20, 2023
Now can he do the same with Justin Trudeau? He also pushed disinformation
Again it's fully possible this is an unannounced move by the New York Times but the general Twitter consensus is that Musk did this as a gag, which knowing Elon Musk doesn't seem at all outside the realm of possibility. We're sure that if Musk was behind it it won't be long until he makes a comment about it though; after all, what's the fun if you don't get to gloat?
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