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4 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The only way to stop the spread of misinformation is to stop inviting the people spreading misinformation onto news platforms to do it

Just because Chris Wallace fact-checked Trump in an interview one time doesn’t mean he’s your Truth King. He thinks the Big Lie is kinda neat!
Chris Wallace was an early Big Lie spreader. He helped Steve Scalise incite the Jan. 6 insurrection by broadcasting this election denial on a “real news” platform well after the election was decided
One month after the Jan. 6 insurrection Chris Wallace rewarded Rand Paul, a Top 5 Big Liar in the Senate who still lies about the election being “stolen,” with a sweet Sunday slot to lie again
The level-one point is that Wallace is acting in bad faith by claiming he does “news gathering” (wtf is that) by platforming liars as if he’s extracting information from their brains with a laser. The level-two point is that Fox News is propaganda 24/7 why is this even a debate
I know this is nearing or surpassing dead-horse territory but the confidence of Chris Wallace flatly stating he doesn’t want to ask Republicans who tried to overturn the election “do you now acknowledge Biden won the election fair and square” is a journalist endorsing the Big Lie Image

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This is a conspiracy theory that @SenatorBraun pushed on @ThisWeekABC on Dec. 6, 2020 when SOME OF US were screaming that news shows should not book Republicans pushing the Big Lie

This is literally what happens when you give Republicans a platform on legitimate news outlets
Braun was given an open platform to lie about suspicious "boxes of ballots" that were seen under tables in polling places and "thousands" of fake absentee ballots

@ABC loved it so much they invited even bigger liars on over the next four months to push this misinformation
There is no accountability for anyone in media deliberately keeping the Big Lie alive — the hosts, the producers, the bookers — because the system is designed to treat every lie as legitimate as long as Republicans tell the lie in unison and brand it as “on message”
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5 May
Why would a network journalist literally turn “Should we remember Jan. 6?” into a both-sides poll unless network journalism is predicated on insisting every bad-faith Republican talking point is a legitimate issue
I’m a journalist. My job is record history — unless enough people don’t want me to, in which case, I won’t do it
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4 May
118 days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, the @washingtonpost is currently promoting Josh Hawley's book in a livestream as if he hasn't spent months pushing the biggest lie in American history

There will never be consequences for any of these Republicans. The news media loves them
I'm not joking - @Cat_Zakrzewski just said the "falsehood that the election was stolen" is a litmus test for the Republican Party and then asked JOSH HAWLEY - the top senator who pushed the lie - "Is that bad for the party?"
"Do you think Liz Cheney should be removed from leadership?" was her next question

"Would you support former President Trump running for office in 2024?" was the next one

"If he runs would you run against him?"

what the fuck is this @washingtonpost I mean holy fucking shit
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4 May
CBS News again adopts Republicans’ propaganda language — “tighten voting laws” — instead of calling it voter suppression because this network is literally run by Republicans
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