I hope journalists realize: if Biden wins, and you report anything incriminating about his administration - even if you ask critical questions - you're going to get accused of spreading Russian disinformation and helping the Kremlin.

That's the toxic template being implemented.
When you're trying to live down that time you got exposed as a journalist who collaborates with the CIA, but then Bush/Cheney's CIA & NSA chief comes and endorses your attack on a journalist as a Kremlin asset.

This is the union between US journalism and the CIA, here: 👇
In the 1950s, it was journalists who got accused by CIA and FBI agents of being Russia stooges & Kremlin agents.

In 2020, it's journalists who lead the way with voicing that accusation against others, as the CIA cheers them.

What a perverse corruption of journalism.🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

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21 Oct
Huge number of journalists with CNN, NBC, Politico, the Washington Post, etc. -- who spent all week claiming that the NY Post story was "Russian disinformation" and that its dissemination was reckless -- caused this obvious hoax to go viral by posting it without checking.
Look at how many people just these two media figures alone -- one from @MSNBC, the other from @POLITICOMag/@NYMag -- deceived and misled by recklessly spreading disinformation, a hoax, because it advanced their political agenda so they didn't bother to check first. So many others ImageImage
However much contempt you have for the mainstream press right now, it's insufficient. I don't have words to adequately convey what they're doing.
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21 Oct
Journalists like this who write what they want and never attract the attention of any power center, let alone suffer threats or punishment, constantly prance around like they're endangered, all to inflate their self-importance. It's one big psycho-drama with them at the center:
Politics and journalism are so much more interesting, and the lives of online writers like this more exciting, if they concoct melodrama involving Kremlin infiltration and fairy tales about how they're being persecuted by fascism for their brave, solitary criticisms of Trump.
Anyway, thoughts and prayers and nothing but solidarity to @tomscocca for everything he's so intrepidly endured -- from state persecution to cultural ostracization -- as a result of his stalwart, courageous and dangerous @Slate mutterings that criticize the Big Orange Dictator.
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21 Oct
Has a single person claimed, let alone proven, that a single email published by the NY Post is forged or fraudulently altered?

The only people who engaged in "disinformation" are the chirping parrots in the media & CIA who called this "Russian disinformation" with zero basis.
The biggest scandal in this whole tawdry, shameful episode isn't (yet) the misconduct or corruption exposed by the emails, but rather the way the intelligence community & journalists united to censor & just lie about these documents. And why is the @nypost account still locked?
There are newsrooms and top editors explicitly stating they do not want the Burisma emails investigated or this story reported — not because they believe the emails are fakes (nobody believes that) but because they think it’s wrong to report this on Biden given how bad Trump is.
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20 Oct
Is ACLU's long-standing defense of free speech still viable, or should other political goals override it? I spoke to an old-school civil libertarian - Ira Glasser, ACLU chief from 1978-2001 - about that question & others. Debuts today, 2 pm ET, on @theintercept's YouTube channel.
My SYSTEM UPDATE episode today with Glasser covers key civil liberties battles of the past, and how they inform our current debates about free speech, racial justice, the ACLU & civil liberties. A new great film, "Mighty Ira," examines his life and work:

mightyira.com
Is the Traditional ACLU View of Free Speech Still Viable? Ira Glasser Speaks Out.

theintercept.com/2020/10/20/is-…
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19 Oct
Is there a single journalist willing to say with a straight face they believe the emails relating to the Bidens are either fabricated or otherwise fraudulently altered, but the Bidens just aren't saying so? There has to be some limits to your willingness to go to bat for them.
When you report a huge archive, there's no way to prove the negative that none of it is altered. You investigate & confirm as much as you can, then use your journalistic judgment. The only way you get confirmation is when the subjects of the reporting don't deny the authenticity.
When we reported the Snowden archive, we knew it was genuine, but breathed a huge sigh of relief when NSA didn't claim the docs were fake.

The same was true with our Brazil reporting over the last year: publishing private messages from corrupt Bolsonaro officials & prosecutors.
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19 Oct
The overwhelming victory by Evo Morales’ party in the Bolivia election highlights a key propagandistic scam: when westerners like @SecPompeo & @Yascha_Mounk want to undemocratically change the governments of other nations though coups, they lie & say they’re supporting democracy.
That the US-approved removal of Morales by force could be described with only one word — “coup” — was undebatable because Morales indisputably got more votes, just like his party again did yesterday. If you said this wasn’t a coup, it’s because you don’t believe in democracy.
This is so true about the subtle propagndistic ways US news outlets talk about democracies in the Global South versus western countries:
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