Thread by @ggreenwald

A vital reminder: the media outlets that always tell you they fight "disinformation" united right before the 2020 election to spread an absolute lie: this laptop was "Russian disinformation."

I knew it was a lie right away and staked my career on it. They lied *on purpose*.

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1594703980436881417

The reason I knew the laptop was real was because conservative outlets produced conclusive evidence that it was, and it had all the hallmarks that we used to authenticate other large laptops: WikiLeaks, Snowden, Brazil.

Here are all those who lied:👇👇

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1504462549755912198

I don't care about Hunter Biden. This mattered because it revealed a lot about ***Joe Biden's**** activities in China and Ukraine.

And now it matters most because the media outlets that all lied refuse to retract this lie. They lie as their mission:👇

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1504811921790410803

If you don't care that the CIA laundered a blatant lie through their most loyal media servants -- starting with POLITICO's @NatashaBertrand -- all to interfere in and manipulate the outcome of the 2020 election, then it means you are an authoritarian and love "disinformation":

So many who work for media outlets and universities who declare themselves media ethics specialists -- @brianstelter, @jayrosen_nyu, @GlennKesslerWP, etc.

Do you have anything to say when *not one media outlet* that spread CIA pre-election lie about the laptop has retracted it?

The @HuffPost didn't just spread the CIA lie that the laptop was "Russian disinformation." They produced a virtual Biden 2020 campaign video based on it.

Watch it. 👇 How can anyone justify their lack of retraction given proof of its authenticity?

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1504464083772329986

Less than 2 weeks before Americans voted in the 2020 election, CNN put their normal army of US Security State operatives to spread the lie that the laptop was "Russian disinformation." CNN spread it all over their platforms. Not one retraction. Watch:

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1317307227963678721

And one high-level Democratic official after the next -- including @jrpsaki and the Biden Campaign itself -- repeatedly said that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation." They all lied. This was a CIA lie. These are the people who want the power to censor the internet.

The former head of Twitter's content moderation (i.e. censorship) unit, @yoyoel, has a NYT op-ed praising himself for all the ways his censorship made the US healthier.

He forgot to mention that he and Twitter *banned* links to reporting on the laptop based on this CIA lie.

This was - and is - a gigantic scandal. The CIA, corporate media and Big Tech (including FB) all united *right before the election* to lie to the American public about information that reflected poorly on Joe Biden, and then brute censored it.

@jack apologized. Nobody else has.

Watch one lie after the next from liberal media corporations -- liberal pundits who always claim they need to censor the internet to stop disinformation when *they* are its most destructive purveyors of it. Not one of these scumbags acknowledged their lie

Anyway, it's obvious why all these media corporations united to ratify what was so clearly a CIA lie right before the election.

It's the same reason they won't retract or acknowledge it now:

They lied to ensure Trump lost, and they know their liberal audience wants them to lie.