{"id":35094,"date":"2022-03-19T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=35094"},"modified":"2022-03-19T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:30:59","slug":"media-fail-to-retract-russian-disinformation-claim-about-hunters-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/media-fail-to-retract-russian-disinformation-claim-about-hunters-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Fail to Retract \u2018Russian Disinformation\u2019 Claim About Hunter\u2019s Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The establishment media on Friday failed to retract reporting that Hunter\u2019s \u201claptop from hell\u201d was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, the Huffington Post, The Intercept, and MotherJones have\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1504811921790410803?s=20&amp;t=yljHn4lTaBE1hVbSy84Vvg\" target=\"_blank\">failed<\/a>\u00a0to retract reporting on a now-debunked\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0story from 2020 that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0Hunter\u2019s laptop was \u201cRussian disinfo,\u201d according to \u201cdozens of former intel officials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s been 24 hours since the NYT acknowledged the reported emails from the Biden laptop were authentic, as was the NY Post&#39;s story on how they obtained it.<br><br>*None* of the media outlets that spread the CIA&#39;s &quot;Russian disinformation&quot; lie has admitted what they did or retracted it\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LXhtIXEHm\">pic.twitter.com\/6LXhtIXEHm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1504811921790410803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The media took Politico\u2019s headline and spread their own disinformation. \u201cGiuliani and the New York Post Are Pushing Russian Disinformation. It\u2019s a Big Test for the Media,\u201d MotherJones published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outlet elaborated, \u201cThat is, the Post piece, based on an unproven smear, is in sync with Moscow\u2019s ongoing effort to influence the 2020 election to help President Donald Trump retain power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Intercept pushed the same narrative. \u201cThis week, a group of former intelligence officials issued a letter saying that the Giuliani laptop story has the classic trademarks of Russian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Huffington Post also published a similar report. \u201cMore Than 50 Former Intel Officials Say Hunter Biden Smear Smells Like Russia,\u201d the publication read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though all these publications cited Politico\u2019s now-debunked article that claimed the intel officials believed the laptop was Russian propaganda, the intel letter that Politico reported on actually suggested the opposite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement \u2014 just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media\u2019s decision to ignore the letter\u2019s line, \u201c\u2026 we do not have evidence of Russian involvement,\u201d is surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps even more surprising is that the New York Times admitted on Wednesday that the information in the New York Post story, which originated from Emma-Jo Morris, who is now Breitbart News\u2019s political editor, was authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such confirmation, however, has seemingly not fazed establishment media, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Democrats, or many of the 15 media personalities who pushed the false narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s broadly known and widely known that there was a broad range of Russian disinformation back in 2020,\u201d Psaki claimed in response to a reporter\u2019s question about the laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the presidential election, Psaki also tweeted the Politico story in defense of her future boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Psaki was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1504546263823433734?s=20&amp;t=-zaT88B1S3t48d8YY0A2xA\" target=\"_blank\">questioned<\/a>\u00a0Thursday about her false claims, she simply directed the reporter to the Justice Department and Hunter Biden\u2019s representatives, failing to admit her mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jen Psaki refuses another question about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal because Hunter \u201cdoesn\u2019t work for the United States\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nrSUpbBWVU\">pic.twitter.com\/nrSUpbBWVU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1504546263823433734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The establishment media on Friday failed to retract reporting that Hunter\u2019s \u201claptop from hell\u201d was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d Specifically, the Huffington Post, The Intercept, and MotherJones have\u00a0failed\u00a0to retract reporting on a now-debunked\u00a0Politico\u00a0story from 2020 that\u00a0claimed\u00a0Hunter\u2019s laptop was \u201cRussian disinfo,\u201d according to \u201cdozens of former intel officials.\u201d The media took Politico\u2019s headline and spread their own disinformation. 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