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The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop -- Falsely Called "Russian Disinformation" -- is Authentic

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The corporate media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.

This was one of the worst cases of disinformation and censorship in modern US political history.

That the Biden archive revealed by the @nypost was authentic was 100% clear at the start. All metrics used to authenticate large archives - ones we used in the Snowden and Brazil investigations - proved that. But media and Big Tech were so desperate to defeat Trump, so they lied.

Any residual doubts about the authenticity of this archive -- and there should never have been any doubts -- were obliterated when POLITICO's @SchreckReports published a book in Sept. proving they were real. But media outlets and Big Tech united in a vow of silence to ignore it.

Virtually every liberal outlet (except, to their credit, NYT) spread this CIA lie *and* lied about what these officials said (they admitted they had *no evidence* for their "suspicion"). Look at this campaign ad masquerading as reporting @HuffPost did:

This was a gigantic fraud perpetrated in the critical weeks before the 2020 election. Millions of Americans were denied the ability to hear vital about reporting Joe Biden, and instead were subjected to a barrage of lies about the provenance and authenticity of these documents.

Virtually every media outlet — CNN, NBC, PBS, HuffPost, The Intercept, many others -- spread the CIA lie over and over that these documents were the by-product of "Russian disinformation." The Intercept even censored my reporting and analysis of the archive. Now, today, the NYT:

I already know the excuses for ignoring this now. I list them below. But regardless of whether the corporate media will again ignores proof -- now from NYT -- that they printed lies to manipulate the election, this disinformation/censorship campaign is of historic importance.

This is a story I covered from the start because of how much corruption it revealed. The corporate press and Big Tech used a blatant CIA lie to claim an authentic archive was false. Yes, there's a war going on: there always is. But these events are vital:

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When your job title in the HR Department of your corporation reads "journalist," but all you really want to be is a partisan spokesman for the DNC:

Now that the NYT admitted what was clear from the start -- the Biden archive is real and corporate media outlets, CIA and Big Tech lied to say it was "Russian disinformation" -- look at what the media did to see why they are so justifiably hated. Watch:

That HuffPost video above -- which looks exactly like what it was: a campaign ad with sinister music about "Russian disinformation" -- is just a disgrace. Same with @amanpour's refusal to let the archive even be mentioned. Watch this from @60Minutes:

There was ample evidence the archive was real from the start. Many of us were screaming from the rooftops about it. The US corporate media lied on purpose because they were desperate to defeat Trump. Big Tech censored it using the CIA lie for the same reason. That's the truth.

For pointing out in real-time that the Biden archive was clearly authentic -- using the standard journalistic methods for authenticating large archives -- and CIA and media outlets were lying by calling it "Russian disinformation," you'll never guess what I was accused of being:

Here was @mtaibbi telling the story of how @TheIntercept's Betsy Reed printed CIA lies that the Biden archive was "Russian disinformation" -- peddled by James Risen -- then censored my article by claiming its authenticity could not be determined:

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Look how many media and political elites, right before the 2020 election, emphatically spread the CIA lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation," celebrating FB & Twitter for censoring it.

*This* is who the real disinformation agents are:

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1440402740409110528

Not one media outlet that published and ratified the CIA lie that the Biden archive was "Russian disinformation" has retracted it or even acknowledged the mountain of proof proving its authenticity.

As much as they're already distrusted, it's not enough:

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Virtually every liberal corporate media outlet spread the CIA's lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation." Each time evidence emerges that they lied, not only don't they retract it, but they *ignore* the evidence. Will they still after NYT admission today? Probably.

By the way, look who else spread the CIA's lies about the Biden laptop in the weeks before the 2020 election: the person who still demands that you trust her now when she claims that this and that and whatever else the WH wants to discredit is "Russian disinformation."

Exactly. It's just astonishing that Twitter locked the @nypost out of its account for 10 days for refusing to delete references to its laptop-based reporting. Facebook, though DNC operative @andymstone, announced they'd suppress the story pending a fact-check: which never came.