Mainstream and Social Media and Fact Checkers 1

This is about as bad a legacy as anyone can have who was directly involved in these cases and especially those who propagated the fraud.  See what you think. Quote: "Never Admit Anything. President Joe Biden says he never talked business with his son. Maybe he didn’t. Maybe that Ukrainian gas company paid Hunter Biden half a million dollars because he has unique business skills that no one else noticed. It’s possible. But unlikely.

        Now a Justice Department investigation may tell us whether Hunter is a sleazy opportunist who broke the law and whether his father knew, or even helped. But equally revealing is the arrogance and bias the reporting on Hunter’s laptop revealed among wide swaths of media and big tech gatekeepers. Even today, most will not admit they were wrong.

       The New York Post broke the laptop story near the end of the presidential campaign. The story was explosive, of course, and the media pile-on intense. Some piled on Hunter Biden, but more piled on the New York Post. They questioned the authenticity of the hard drive and the timing and accuracy of the story.

       Twitter blocked the story from even being shared. Facebook hid the story. Politico said it might be “Russian disinformation.” A Washington Post column called it “laughably weak.” A New York Times piece labeled it “farcical retread of the Russian hack-and-leak operation that helped torpedo Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations.” The story was mocked and buried.

       Now, a year and a half later, the Post and Times admit that major parts of the story were accurate. Do you know what they haven’t said? “Sorry. We cannot stand the idea of another Trump term, so we didn’t report on bad things Democrats did.”

The Washington Post finally wrote that the way the media handled the story was an “opportunity for a reckoning.” But then they spent the rest of their editorial making excuses for their mistakes.

       No one was fired. No one was suspended. No policy was changed. This is nothing new. For months, Facebook blocked any mention of the theory that COVID-19 may have been leaked from a lab. Most media sneered that it was “fake news.” The Washington Post called it “a fringe theory.” The New York Times, a “conspiracy theory.” PolitiFact rated it “Pants on Fire!”

      Only when the Biden administration said there might have been a lab leak did Facebook drop its censorship. Did Facebook say, “Sorry? We shouldn’t censor such important discussion?” No. Did we see apologetic commentaries on CNN and MSNBC? I must have missed them.

      Maybe none of this is a big deal to you, but it’s a big deal to me. I make my living posting videos on digital platforms. I made two videos that suggested fears about climate change are overblown. I didn’t say climate change isn’t real. I didn’t say it won’t cause problems. In fact, I said it’s already caused problems. But because I said the fear might be overblown, Facebook’s climate-activist “fact-checkers” make sure fewer people see my work.
      I once got millions of views on Facebook. Not anymore. Nothing I’d said in my climate videos was wrong. In one case, Facebook’s own fact-checker admitted that I didn’t get any facts wrong. Still, Facebook continues to smear my work as “partly false.” They even quote me saying something I never said!

      Yet even after I point that out, Facebook will not make a correction. Facebook, Twitter, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, Poynter Institute “fact-checkers” and most of the elite media are now part information-sharers, part leftist interest groups.

       I’m neither Democrat nor Republican. I don’t obsess over whether Hunter Biden got paid to do sleazy things and whisper in his father’s ear. If he did, I doubt that he had much influence, anyway. I feel far more threatened when America’s Big Media don’t report facts, don’t speak up when censors are wrong and don’t remove mistakes when they’re caught making them. Apologizing for mistakes is something we teach little kids to do. Is that too much to ask of our media and social media giants?     Never Admit Anything - American Action News

The mainstream media by supporting the corrupt Democrat party got what it wanted when they purposely lied endlessly about Trump to protect Biden and indeed facilitated the assentation of the most corrupt person possible to the highest office in our country. That is not and never has been their job. They violated every possible journalistic principle in the book and are in large measure responsible for the dismal condition our country is now in. Their culpability is coming home to roost. But their admission of guilt will never be acceptable nor is absolution of their crimes warranted. This item deals with the consequences of their massively unethical behavior. 

        Quote: "SPOTLIGHT RETURNS TO HUNTER BIDEN AS MEDIA ADMITS LAPTOP IS REAL. As a federal probe into Hunter Biden’s tax filings moves closer to trial, liberal news outlets have been forced to admit the authenticity of a story they downplayed in 2020. The story centered on a laptop Hunter left behind at a repair shop in Delaware in 2019. The laptop contained a treasure trove of emails, texts, and other documents confirming Hunter’s use of political leverage to earn massive profits from foreign energy companies – including $4.8 million from a state-run Chinese energy company called CEFC. Apparently, Hunter sent as much as 50% of his ill-begotten earnings back to his family. “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” said Hunter in a text to his daughter Naomi in January 2019. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.” 

        The New York Post exclusively reported on the contents of the laptop in October 2020. The story, which should have been of particular interest to Americans as they prepared to vote in the presidential election, was downplayed by the mainstream media. Several outlets claimed the story was “Russian disinformation” designed to impact the presidential election. Twitter even went to far as to lock the accounts of users who shared the Post article. 

       Last month, The New York Times finally issued a report confirming the existence of the laptop and noting Hunter Biden’s payment of over $1 million to the IRS. The investigation into Hunter’s tax filings originally centered on his failure to pay taxes since his father took office as vice president, but was expanded in 2018 to consider how his international business dealings may be linked to his father’s political career. 

       “The thing that bothers me the most though, Maria, is the conspiracy,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “The real conspiracy here was the Democrats, Big Tech, Big Media, keeping this story from the American people just days before the most important election we have – election for President of the United States – election for who’s going to be the Commander in Chief. And you have a family involved with all kinds of foreign business interests and we don’t get to hear that story.” Jordan pointed to a letter, signed by 51 former intelligence officials, that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story sounded like something from a Russian disinformation campaign. “That letter became the basis for Big Tech and Big Media to suppress this story and keep it from We The People in the run up to our most important election.” 

       Confirmation of the laptop’s authenticity by the mainstream media is a particularly sweet victory for Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), who issued a report on the Biden family’s suspicious business dealings in September 2020 (before the Post broke the story about the laptop). 

       Democrats, panicked that the report would cost Joe Biden the presidency, actually claimed Grassley and Johnson were working on behalf of Russian agents. As Democrats gathered for a vote in an attempt to censor the exposé before its release, Senator Ron Wyden (R-OR) described the report as an example of “the spread of Russian propaganda, and the pathway it’s following from Russian agents through the United States Senate to the American public.” 

Upon its release, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “The Kremlin must be very pleased.”    Spotlight Returns to Hunter Biden as Media Admits Laptop is Real - The Punching Bag Post   

       Be sure to review the four additional links at the end of the piece that details the corruption that so fills the Democrat party, the mainstream media and deep state operatives in our federal intelligence agencies, and other far left-wing operatives elsewhere in government and the private sector.