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Andrew Prokop

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The CW has swung a bit against the “misinformation” critics but Elon regularly does his absolute best to vindicate them by spreading obviously fake nonsense

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Nicholas Grossman

There are people who believe 2,458 NATO soldiers have died in Ukraine and no one noticed. That’s two more deaths than from 20 years of US in Afghanistan, but no body bags, grieving families, medals, nothing. And one who apparently buys that controls information flows to millions. twitter.com/nrg8000/status…

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Pomerantz was the lead prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's Trump investigation. He resigned after the new DA, Alvin Bragg, said he lacked confidence in the case. Now Pomerantz has a book about what went down, just as Bragg has been trying to restart the case

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Mark Pomerantz's book sounds pretty interesting, also seems like it will indeed seriously undermine what the NY DA's office is trying to do right now in their Trump case (they just started meeting with Cohen again!) thedailybeast.com/manhattan-dist

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I was also confused by this.

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I promise I am not going to read this Jeff Gerth travesty but I just saw a screenshot of this passage and ... I have questions. What is Gerth's sourcing? Is it Barr? Was Barr actually in the meeting? If so, why? He wasn't AG in 2017. Classic Gerth: inscrutable.

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In general it's good practice, when the person you're quoting is paraphrasing someone else, not to make it seem like that quote is their own thought

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This is kind of a strange way for Jeff Gerth's series to start. If you compare it to the full Dean Baquet quote it's not wrong, exactly, but some may get a mistaken impression because the first half of the sentence is sheared off cjr.org/special_report slate.com/news-and-polit

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This of course would be a quite different story from the current hot speculation without any evidence whatsoever that indicted official Charles McGonigal was the NYT's source. newrepublic.com/article/170328

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One of the interesting bits in the Gerth series was his suggestion that the source for the NYT's October 2016 "Investigating Trump, FBI sees no clear link to Russia" article was... Andy McCabe. cjr.org/special_report

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Also in this vein is Strzok's repeated internal critiques of reporting about contacts between Trump advisers and Russian intelligence as going too far (not new but helpfully compiled here). cjr.org/special_report

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Specifically, the suggestion here is that McCabe downplayed the Trump/Russia investigation to NYT at this key moment in the campaign and was the main reason they ran that skeptical article. Once again complicating what you might expect from the "anti-Trump deep state."

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One of the interesting bits in the Gerth series was his suggestion that the source for the NYT's October 2016 "Investigating Trump, FBI sees no clear link to Russia" article was... Andy McCabe. cjr.org/special_report

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The affidavit for Meek's arrest is truly horrifying. Very disturbing allegations here: justice.gov/opa/press-rele

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Turns out this wasn't the Biden Gestapo cracking down on journalists, we didn't become Saudi Arabia, etc. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/

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Everyone likes to dunk on the early media Covid coverage that got it wrong, so occasionally it's worth remembering some that held up (Feb 2020) theatlantic.com/health/archive

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@pwnallthethings

"This platform is the real source of truth, all other journalism is bad" -- area man who will believe literally anything if it's written on a GIF and roughly aligns with his priors

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Particularly because the similarities between overreaching Trump/Russia coverage and the stories that won Gerth his own Pulitzer are... notable ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id

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Now that Gerth has begun opining it might have been interesting to have him reflect on his own firsthand experience in the media scandal hype ecosystem, his experience with editors at the Times and how the Times shapes narratives, etc.

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Gerth's Trump/Russia arguments should rise and fall on their merits. But he's not just a "NYT Pulitzer winner." His reporting has long been controversial for some of the exact features he's now criticizing Whitewater: pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro Wen Ho Lee

How the 1999 Arrest of Wen Ho Lee Taught Chinese Americans Their Country May Never Trust Them

On March 6, 1999, the New York Times published an explosive report by James Risen and Jeff Gerth that a spy at Los Alamos National Laboratory had given...

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I agree with parts of this and disagree with others, but the choice of having Jeff Gerth write about reporters hyping scandals that turn out to be overblown, when he's long been criticized for doing just that with Whitewater and Wen Ho Lee, is interesting cjr.org/special_report

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Trump's lawsuit against Bob Woodward gets the dates of Woodward's books wrong — FEAR came out in 2018, RAGE came out in 2020 assets.bwbx.io/documents/user

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Ida Tarbell viewed herself as a victim of audience capture, wanted to write nuanced explainers on business, not just "gotcha" muckraking

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Hofstadter on how the 1890s Populists wanted to RETVRN to the pre-industrial era

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Credit where due...

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Fox guest on Pelosi attack: Where is the evidence of a breaking and entering Fox anchor: There's video of him breaking into the house. G: I haven't seen that A: It's on the screen right now. G: Maybe that's true, maybe I'm wrong A: He's clearly using that to break in

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This is a strong Twitter Files thread that has the goods — not on Twitter misconduct, but that various articles citing a particular source about "Russian bot" activity seem to have been based on bad information.

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5.These are quotes by Twitter executives about Hamilton 68, a digital “dashboard” that claimed to track Russian influence and was the source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years.

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The push notifications about this seem kind of tasteless

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Julia Carrie Wong

I don’t know if it’s good for us as a society that we’ve created the expectation that normal members of the public should be regularly exposed to traumatic imagery of violent crimes in the course of staying up to date on the news.

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having read through every single tweet in the Twitter files, perhaps the most discrediting moment was this tweet from

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, when his description of Jim Baker's role in the Hunter Biden laptop decision is so different than what the docs show

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35. In response to Roth, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy. Baker does so over email, and in a Google doc, on October 14 and 15.

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It isn't about the facts at all, it's just that it's more fun for conservative shitposters to believe a conspiracy theory rather than that the speaker of the House's husband was brutally attacked by a disturbed stranger who then confessed he wanted to attack Nancy Pelosi herself

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Checking the replies from some conservative big name accounts who have tweeted the video, that has... not been the effect. Trying to debunk a conspiracy theory like this is playing whack-a-mole. You knock down one absurd theory, two more quickly pop up

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This video is hard to watch, but should pour cold water all over those right-wing conspiracy theories that were pushed about the attack. twitter.com/BigadShaban/st…

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The lack of long-running D trifectas is in part because Republicans used to be able to win governorships even in deep blue states. Arnold, Linda Lingle, Jodi Rell, Chris Christie, Larry Hogan, Bruce Rauner, Charlie Baker... but they're all gone now with only Phil Scott remaining

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Ballotpedia has a helpful table of when the current party control status quo in every state came into effect. Republicans have 8 trifectas that date back to the GW Bush Admin or earlier, but the oldest Dem trifecta is Delaware, which was won in 2008. ballotpedia.org/State_governme

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Democratic trifectas now control 17 state governments, up from a mere 6 in 2017. Via

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In 2020, the Washington Post considered buying either

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Great story of a big mess from

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For @thisisinsider, I talked to former FBI agent Charles McGonigal's ex-lover about his cash-fueled double life. Here is what she told me... businessinsider.com/charles-mcgoni

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The politicized, blinkered investigation Durham and Barr were looking for was inside them all along.

The stunning hypocrisy of Bill Barr’s probe into the Russia-Trump investigation

A new report reveals how politicized and conspiratorial the Durham investigation was.

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Kids these days love carjackings. Can't get enough of them. nbcwashington.com/news/local/upt axios.com/local/washingt

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It's a newsworthy and fun story but yes the proportion of national news coverage being devoted to this is... off

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it has been consistently jaw-dropping how much excessive attention has been devoted to such a marginal story twitter.com/NPRinskeep/sta…

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If Vance spits out the Yarvin pill and takes the Wells King pill he’d be a really interesting vote

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"Why conservatives should embrace labor unions to reduce economic inequality." The author of this column Wells King was just hired as a senior advisor to newly elected Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH). In the world of GOP staff, that's a new development. usatoday.com/story/opinion/

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October 2019: "Justice Department officials have said that Durham has found something significant, and that critics should be careful." nbcnews.com/politics/justi

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This piece is just a truly brutal roasting of Durham and Barr. Makes them look awful — bumbling political hacks stumbling from one conspiracy and weaksauce case to the next. And doing exactly what they accused the Trump/Russia investigators of doing nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/

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Amazingly, per NYT, this is why the Durham investigation became a criminal investigation — to investigate a new allegation *against Trump.* (Everyone assumed it was to investigate officials.) Barr "chose in this instance not to clarify what was really happening." Wow.

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