{"id":48348,"date":"2022-12-06T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48348"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:21:45","slug":"the-threat-of-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48348","title":{"rendered":"The Threat Of Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal<\/a> posted an article about Elon Musk’s release of Twitter’s documents showing censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s release of internal emails relating to Twitter\u2019s 2020 censorship is news by any definition, even if the mainstream media dismiss it. There will be many threads to unspool as more is released, but a couple of points are already worth making.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first is that Mr. Musk would do the country a favor by releasing the documents all at once for everyone to inspect. So far he\u2019s dribbled them out piecemeal through journalist Matt Taibbi\u2019s Twitter feed, which makes it easier for the media to claim they can\u2019t report on documents because they can\u2019t independently confirm them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A second point is an huzzah for Rep. Ro Khanna, the California progressive Democrat, who warned Twitter in 2020 about the free-speech implications and political backlash of censoring the New York Post story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. That was good advice, even if Twitter didn\u2019t take it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A third point is the confirmation of the central role that former spies played in October 2020 in framing the Hunter Biden story in a way that made it easier for Twitter and Facebook<\/a> to justify their censorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recall that former Democratic intelligence officials James Clapper and John Brennan led the spooks in issuing a public statement suggesting that the laptop may have been hacked and its content was Russian disinformation. On Oct. 16, 2020, Mr. Clapper told CNN that \u201cto me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work.\u201d On Oct. 19, 51 former spooks released their statement claiming that the arrival of the emails \u201chas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d (The statement<\/a> and signers are published nearby.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at the Wall Street Journal concludes:<\/p>\n

The partisan foray by current and former U.S. intelligence officials in the last two elections should be deeply troubling to Americans on the left and right. They have authority by dint of access to information that isn\u2019t confirmable by the press, which takes their spin as gospel. This is a form of political corruption that needs to be exposed, and perhaps the Twitter documents will help to unlock the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is very possible that the former and current U.S. intelligence officials working to get Joe Biden elected didn’t want President Trump looking into the domestic activities of our spy agencies. It seems that a thorough examination of those domestic activities is long overdue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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