The lying censors

 Amber Athey:

The disinformation police are the worst purveyors of disinformation

How the ‘news’ became ‘fake news’

The Department of Homeland Security announced last spring that they would form a “Disinformation Governance Board” to track and combat so-called fake news. The DHS disbanded the board in May after widespread criticism of its Orwellian intentions — as well as the fact that its chosen czar was a purveyor of disinformation. Nina Jankowicz claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” spread the false story that Trump had ties to a Russian bank and dismissed the notion that Critical Race Theory was being taught in public schools.

Jankowicz was merely one example of an increasingly obvious reality: the individuals policing “disinformation” are themselves disseminating lies. One of their favorite tactics is to blame-shift so as to deny their own responsibility for fake news.

For example, after the attack on Paul Pelosi in San Francisco, Politico published a report suggesting a third person was present during the assault by David DePape.

“Officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door and were let inside by an unknown person. They discovered DePape and Pelosi struggling for a hammer,” the Politico article read.

Yet just days later, Politico reporter Adam Wren blamed conservatives for spreading the information that his own outlet had reported.

“Among those baseless claims: that a third person answered the door when police arrived at the Pelosi home, which San Francisco law enforcement has said is untrue; and that DePape was in his underwear when apprehended, a falsehood taken from a since-corrected local news report,” Wren wrote. (Note: Wren also recently wrote an article outing a Republican congressional candidate as a victim of sexual assault).

Another report from the California version of Politico‘s daily Playbook newsletter again blamed the right for the proliferation of false information about the attack.
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There is much more.

Athey has done a good job cataloging some of the cases of misinformation used by the mainstream media.  The people pushing this leftist bilge are disgusting and it is even worse when they claim to be fighting "disinformation."

See, also:

Probe launched into Homeland Security’s 'taxpayer-funded censorship campaign'