I know things were a hectic, but I find it rather shocking the ease with which the NYT invented a story about a credentialed reporter out of whole cloth and then published it.

Given how rapidly the FBI is arresting people, the NYT should take pains to get this stuff right.
For those who don't know, Sunday's @nytimes published an image of @RichieMcGinniss, referred to him as a "rioter" and said he was engaged in violent activity at the capitol.

NONE OF THIS IS TRUE.
While we’re at it, the NYT correction makes no attempt to correct the implication. Instead, they say the “right wing” reporter was somehow adjacent to the violence and property destruction.

This is sickening behavior from the paper of record. Be up front when you fuck up.
Look at this caption. He was literally pointing at his phone that he dropped in the melee, it had all his work on it from the day.
For sure the photographer heard him asking about this. He was in the maelstrom no different than several other reporters.

NYT libeled him, then in their correction, left the implication that POSSIBLY MAYBE because he works for a RW outlet he may have had some role.

DISGUSTING
What a fucking weasely way to correct a falsehood.

How about owning up to the mistake?

It’s really dumbfounding. Invent a negative story about a person, publish it, then “correct” it by leaving in the implication.

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Here is what we know and what we don’t:

1. We know the virus came from bats.
2. We don’t know how it jumped from bats to humans, the missing link
3. We know the kind of bat it came from was hundreds of miles from where the outbreak occurred.
4 ...
We know the lab right beside the outbreak was studying how viruses evolve to jump species.

5 We know this is called gain of function research.

6 We know this research was briefly banned in the US bec it has the potential to create, yes create, highly transmissible new pathogens
7. We also know that several of the naysayers say this virus is like 95% genetically similar to viruses already present in nature.

8. But we know that many of these naysayers have a vested financial interest in preserving this research.

9. And we know that it’s not
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I’m not sure why you included us in this round up, @brianstelter ... we have not been boosting the president’s fraud allegations. Actually we’ve been doing the exact opposite. I would ask for a correction, but I’m pretty sure this is intentional dishonesty.
I’m legitimately wondering if you’ve got anything to say here, @brianstelter
This post led our coverage on the site November 9, @brianstelter, just days after the election. So, again, I’m not sure what methodology you used in your casual slander of our company. dailycaller.com/2020/11/09/mai…
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WEVE TOLD ON TRUMP ALREADY ... is literally the lamest fucking thing you could tweet right now
*snort* lol ... NBC’s biggest hack(and a serial liar) is Twitter’s hall monitor
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A pipe burst in Georgia, and now they think they won't finish counting votes for another ~two days, CBS reporting. Not a joke.
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Pretty good straw man and I don’t blame wider media for taking it, but the story we’ve heard for years is that Joe Biden had no visibility on his son’s China ventures — as he carried him in Air Force Two to China — and now we know Biden’s been lying.
We also know that Biden’s kind of serendipitously formed “S corporations” — through which he became rich IMMEDIATELY after leaving office — wouldn’t be required to disclose its sources of income.

theintercept.com/2019/09/11/joe…
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dailycaller.com/2020/10/23/joe…
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I’m not buying it.

Rather than suppress a massive story weeks before an election, a more responsible and sober course of action would have been to simply reach out to the totally public and accessible people at NYPost to inform them that they need to redact a few emails.
The NY Post is not a group of Macedonian teens flinging fake news into the internet ecosphere.

This is an absolutely outrageous excuse to censor a major media outlet breaking a big story of huge public interest.

In short, it does not pass the smell test.
The chronology:

1. @Twitter did this censorship without prior comms to the publisher.

2. Twitter said it was because the post violated their hacked info policy (citing no evidence).

3. Suspended WH press sec and journos.

4. Found the pers info and added that to the excuses.
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