Now that it’s fairly safe to do so, the New York Times has confirmed that the 2020 story about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and its contents is indeed real. Karol Markowicz sums up where things stand at the moment:
Twitter suspended a major newspaper’s account for a story everyone is now forced to acknowledge was true. That’s fine, right? We’ll just be moving on?
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) March 17, 2022
To the people in my mentions asking what I’m talking about that: the NY Post ran a story about Hunter Biden, during the election, that was censored on Twitter&FB for being fake. Story was confirmed by NY Times today but everyone knew it was true all along. https://t.co/4Z0hfJiT0K
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) March 17, 2022
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman notes that the Hunter Biden laptop & emails story was “characterized as possible misinformation by some”:
Reposting w correct date – Via @nytimes colleagues, a deep dive into the Hunter Biden investigation, including that the emails released in late 2020, and characterized as possible Russian disinformation by some, were authentic https://t.co/IwWPDPdjlS
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 17, 2022
And by “some” she must mean “everybody in the media and Big Tech except for the NY Post and select others who subsequently had their accounts locked for sharing ‘misinformation'”:
In short, the media covered up for a political candidate of their choice, and two years later are trying to clean up the mess. https://t.co/e7NtpKaFiP
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) March 17, 2022
The “clean up” doesn’t seem to include any apologies or holding anyone accountable.
You and your peers covered this up so you could *claim* it was disinfo so you could support biden.
You and your peers got a select group (Dems) of NatSec 'experts' to call it Russian disinfo. It was not.
Now that there is a greater risk to Dems, y'all publish it.
— Flight93_Militia (@SCOAMT) March 17, 2022
I wonder if we’re going to get all the names of the ‘intelligence sources’ who said the emails were fake, so that we’ll know next time not to listen to whatever they have to say. Wasn’t one of them an ex-CIA guy on CNN? I’ll bet he doesn’t get fired. https://t.co/r0SME39dPQ
— johnny dollar (@johnnydollar01) March 17, 2022
Those are the “dozens of former intel officials” Politico cited that Jen Psaki used in an attempt to debunk the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020:
Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say https://t.co/zRdHxTxVsl
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) October 20, 2020
And now the NY Times has acknowledged the story is real, but the media/Big Tech running cover for the Dems ahead of the election served its purpose.
Tell me again how the DNC didn't collude with Big Tech to rig the 2020 election? 😡 https://t.co/4aSQESHjXE
— Liberpublicrat (@TomShumaker0707) March 17, 2022
It’s not that she was lying, it’s just that she had an election to win. https://t.co/9yvrfZnXn6
— Smatt (@mdrache) March 17, 2022
Much of the media, including the “fact-checkers,” did their job as they saw it in 2020, and it had nothing to do with facts.
So it’s very clear The NY Times is guilty of election interference and a coup against our government. https://t.co/gthi7hyVD9
— Mike Parker (@MJP1313) March 17, 2022
When do the good folks at @nypost get their formal apology? https://t.co/sKztksbteI
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) March 17, 2022
Cue the crickets.
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