Thread by @nancylevine

1/ Steve Bannon went to Rupert Murdoch's Sky News Australia to plant #disinformation about Hunter Biden.

NY Times last year: "Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth."
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

2/ Murdoch is executive chairman of @newscorp, parent company of Sky News Australia, as well as several prominent U.S. media brands, including the New York Post.

https://twitter.com/DrDinD/status/1317829962901061632?s=20

3/ Murdoch-owned @nypost is ground zero of the Trump team's #disinformation smear campaign against Hunter Biden.

@washingtonpost reported: "The New York Post said it obtained the material from former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a personal lawyer to President Trump."

4/ The @FBI is investigating provenance of the material published by the Murdoch-owned NY Post.

"The Post has published a series of stories based on emails the conservative tabloid said it obtained from President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani."
nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

5/ "Since Inauguration Day, Mr. Murdoch has talked regularly with Mr. Trump, often bypassing the White House chief of staff, Gen. John F. Kelly, who screens incoming calls," the @nytimes reported in 2017.
nytimes.com/2017/12/23/bus…

6/ Rupert Murdoch is also Chairman of Fox Corp, parent company of @FoxNews. Trump uses Fox News as his bully pulpit to broadcast #disinformation, appearing regularly on @seanhannity's show, and compulsively retweeting Fox hosts.

7/ Last week, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched a petition calling for a royal commission into News Corp’s conduct in Australia and its “overwhelming control” of the print media. The petition has more than 280,000 signatures. theguardian.com/media/2020/oct…

8/ How to hold Murdoch accountable for disseminating #disinformation, destabilizing democracy:

Boycott all Murdoch-owned brands. List of Fox News advertisers via @mmfa: mediamatters.org/fox-news/these…

Boycott News Corp entities. Some are guilty, all are responsible. #BoycottMurdoch

9/ Institutional shareholders of Murdoch's News Corp and Fox Corp should DIVEST from $NWSA and $FOX.

BlackRock holds both. @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, 2018: Contribute to society, or risk losing our support, @andrewrsorkin @nytimes nytimes.com/2018/01/15/bus…

#ESG #ImpactInvesting

10/ Despite Murdoch's efforts to interfere in our elections and destabilize democracy by disseminating #disinformation, he predicts a landslide victory for @JoeBiden.

Prove him right. #VOTE #Biden
thedailybeast.com/fox-news-owner…

11/ NEW: "Bruce Golding, a reporter at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid since 2007, did not allow his byline to be used because he had concerns over the article’s credibility, the two [NY] Post employees said" about the NY Post's article on Hunter Biden.
nytimes.com/2020/10/18/bus…

12/ “Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch made their decision. They chose money and ideology over responsibility. And a lot of Americans are dead because of it.” By @MattGertz @mmfa #BoycottMurdoch
mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…

13/ DNI Ratcliffe, who lied on his resumé, was dispatched to Murdoch-owned Fox News to propagandize about the Murdoch-owned New York Post story about Hunter Biden that was planted by Rudy Giuliani.
#Vote #Biden #BoycottMurdoch

https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1318194604009754625?s=20

14/ New York Post insider tells @oliverdarcy: "All this Hunter Biden shit is being done in its own bubble. It's happening on an island within an island.” #BoycottMurdoch

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1318181219557920768?s=20