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Cleuci de Oliveira
@CLEUCl
journalist | words @nytimes, @guardian, @foreignpolicy | still on twitter vacation 😎 | get in touch: deoliveiracleuci@gmail.com
Jul 22, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/ An update on the National Review's role in Jeffrey Epstein's attempt to rehab his image:

In my haste last night, after the NYTimes story went up (which made me realize I'd gotten scooped😪) I forgot to mention the most important and still unresolved part of this sordid tale 2/ To recap: yesterday's Times article showed how Epstein's PR effort placed glowing stories bout his in sites like HuffPost, Forbes and National Review

At HuffPost & Forbes, this was possible because of a system where they'd let any contributor post

nytimes.com/2019/07/21/bus…
Jul 22, 2019 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
I just spent the last several days feverishly reporting this exact story about Epstein's astroturf media campaign, only to get scooped by the Times 😭

Upside: I can close 900 browser tabs now

Story below misses a huge detail, though 1/n Piece places the fake Epstein "news stories" within the once ubiquitous tradition among certain sites of letting random contributors post whatever they wanted, without editorial supervision

This is accurate re: Forbes & HuffPo. It's NOT what happened at National Review, tho 2/n