Thread by @ggreenwald

This tweet is absolutely false. The report does not even mention the Hunter Biden laptop or the documents reported on, let alone allege that it came from Russia, let alone provide proof of this. This tweet is disinformation.

https://twitter.com/DefTechPat/status/1371927617029480454

The MSNBC host who first spread this tweet subsequently acknowledged that, upon reading the report, he sees that the tweet's claim is untrue because there is no mention of what it alleges:

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1371932705194176517

And, just to review the basic rule of journalism (and basic rationality) once more: even if the US security state had alleged the laptop came from Russia, minimally sane and sober people will not assume that's true absent *evidence." That's what journalistic skepticism means.

For those who harbor reverence for US Govt pronouncements, the only time it commented on the Hunter laptop was when DNI said there was no evidence Russia was involved. That claim came from Brennan-led ex-CIA agents & was laundered by gullible US media:

nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

Good to see this - but look at the first tweet with the false claim about Russia's involvement and see how widespread it is, and that guy has no incentive to delete it because the benefits of the re-tweets and increased followers are too sweet:

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1371941396974874626

Even this guy's walkbacks and concessions are false. He can't admit he just made this up. He did. Usually they rely on the fact that reports like this are very long & people with other jobs don't have time to read them. This one is short: take a look to see how casually they lie.

This is why the biggest fucking scam in media right now are the "disinformation units" of NBC, CNN & NYT. Here's one of their stars who bravely tattles on 4Chan teenagers endorsing and spreading a blatant lie about an issue that actually matters, that everyone now sees is false.

As I wrote today, and I think it's the key truth of US media: "the sectors of the media pretending to be most distraught about “disinformation are, in fact, the most aggressive, prolific and destructive disseminators of that disinformation by far."

greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-m…

If you think the real power centers in the US are the Proud Boys, 4Chan & Boogaloos rather than the CIA, FBI, NSA, Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and spend most of your time battling the former while serving the latter as stenographers, your journalism is definitionally shit.