Thread by @emptywheel

#mattydickpics unsurprisingly celebrates the guy who laundered Russian intelligence product into @cjr w/o disclosure.

@CJR I finished my series on Jeff Gerth and Kyle Pope's wildly erroneous screed yesterday.

Part One: on how Gerth started lying at word 18.

emptywheel.net/2023/02/07/cjr…

@CJR Part Two, on how Gerth ignored the vast majority of the @nytimes and @washingtonpost stories he claimed to be commenting on.

emptywheel.net/2023/02/07/the…

@CJR Part Three, on how Gerth rellied heavily on a Russian intelligence product that even John Ratcliffe warned against -- without telling readers he was doing so.

emptywheel.net/2023/02/08/jef…

@CJR Part Four, on how Gerth recycled the errors of other "Russiagate" propagandists -- including Sidney Powell -- rather than the actual record of the Russian investigation.

emptywheel.net/2023/02/11/jef…

@CJR When CJR is publishing tripe that adopts a lower standard of factuality and disclosure than John Ratcliffe -- and instead adopts the Sidney Powell standard of truth -- @jelani9 and other administrators ought to take note.