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THE DISINFO FILES | VOL. 1: CNN Propagates The Hunter Laptop 'Russian Disinformation' Hoax

A primary focus of leftist media and political organizations moving into the 2024 election cycle is “combating disinformation” from the right.

NBC News: “Disinformation Poses an Unprecedented Threat in 2024."

WEF: “Disinformation is No. 1 Threat as Elections Approach."

Both NBC and the WEF are correct about disinfo posing a threat — just not in the way they want you to believe.

To prove it, the first volume in this series chronicling lefwing disinformation efforts features former CNN “journalist” Brian Stelter — breathlessly, dramatically parroting his IC-supplied false narrative about Hunter’s laptop in October of 2020.

Two weeks before the November election day.

In the process, he smugly smears Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, The New York Post, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Rudy Giuliani and others as nefarious actors in a grand conspiracy to attack the Bidens.

Since, the DOJ itself has verified Hunter Biden’s ownership of the laptop.

The 51 IC officials that created the laptop “Russian disinformation” narrative misled the American people in a blatant election interference op.

And so did CNN’s Brian Stelter.
This is the first installment of what will be an ongoing series of video clips and compilations that expose disinformation propagation and coordination from leftist media, politicians and public figures.

The goal is to produce 100 volumes of this series in the coming weeks and months.

Quick, simple examples that are easy to explain and share.

(The upcoming volumes will be much more succinct, with the setup out of the way.)

In total, they will tell a story that creates a powerful counter-narrative to regime “disinformation” propaganda aimed at the right.

The left needs to be forever branded with the “disinformation” label. We can help do that.

Please share — and please DM your submissions for upcoming volumes.

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His own radical record.

Dismantling Newsom’s “Moderate” Rebrand:

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The propaganda project designed to position Newsom for a presidential run in 2028 kicked off with him dipping his toe in the water of common sense — by attempting to get on the 80 side of an 80/20 issue: Men playing in women’s sports.

Legacy media predictably heralded this move as a “Remarkable Shift” — not an opportunistic flip-flop, which is exactly what it is.

A 2014 tweet from Newsom celebrated a law that required schools to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports in California.

Newsom hasn’t suddenly seen the light — he’s simply seen the polling.
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Newsom’s far-left roots don’t stop him from bending to any political stance or ideological twist needed to grab—and hold—power. As he puts it:

There’s “this mask you live in that you become.”
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More lies.
.@elonmusk: “She was lying.”
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🧵Observing the Trump 47 media strategy: Transforming communication with the American people.

It’s a different ballgame this time around.

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1⃣ THE WH BRIEFING ROOM: Press Sec Karoline Leavitt announces that Americans’ trust in legacy media is at an all time low, welcomes new media access into the WH briefing room, promises to address questions from outlets across the ideological spectrum.

Massive shakeup that signals to Americans from the press room podium how legacy media has been thoroughly discredited — while simultaneously promising balanced coverage and maximum transparency.
2⃣ DoD PRESS ACCESS: SecDef Pete Hegseth oversees long overdue changes to press access at the Pentagon:

NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico will “rotate out of the building” to give space to New York Post, Breitbart, OAN, and HuffPost.

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🚨After actively engaging in a coverup of Biden’s cognitive state — the brave, intrepid journalists at NYT are out with a tell-all piece on the coverup — blaming Biden’s inner circle, and taking zero responsibility themselves.

Everything they lied about for years, they now admit is true — Biden’s “walkers” to hide his shuffle, the short stairs to AF1, his frequent falls, cognitive lapses, telepromper woes, needing naps for debate prep — everything.

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This strategy was previewed by this CBS reporter in late December. At the time, I noted:

"Expect much more of this moving forward, as the Propaganda Press tries in vain to salvage their destroyed credibility."
Non-paywalled link to NYT piece: www-nytimes-com.translate.goog/2025/01/17/us/…
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1⃣ @elonmusk purchases Twitter.

It’s nearly impossible to state the earth-shattering ramifications that resulted from one man’s drive to preserve and defend free speech.

Without this, the information environment for the 2024 election is vastly different, as the Twitter 1.0 censorship regime would have remained firmly in place — ready to rerun Hunter Laptop-type election interference.

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State-run media goes into full election-influencing operative mode here — attacking their political adversaries under the guise of presenting “non-partisan” election information.

BECKER: “We're seeing more election disinformation for sure. It's coming from, Donald Trump. It's coming from Elon Musk. It's coming from we know, foreign adversaries like Russia and Iran and North Korea and China."

“So when you see information on social media in particular, that triggers something within you that seems to make you angry about the other side. All of us as sophisticated media consumers, should pause and and say, what is? Maybe that anger is the product they're trying to create. Maybe they're getting paid or they're benefiting from creating that anger in us."

Becker is a leftwing operative posing as a non-partisan election expert — and is regularly platformed by many state-media outlets to attack their political opponents.
Becker is the Exec Dir and Fndr of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, former People for the American Way activist, Cal Berkeley alum, and author of the book “The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of The Big Lie."

“Non-partisan."
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Per Influence Watch, In 2020, Becker’s CEIR org received a whopping $69.M from Zuckerberg for “voter protection efforts."

This is who legacy media wants you to believe is a non-partisan source of election information.
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