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Senior writer @theintercept. Former @nytimes reporter and Lede blogger. Mastodon: https://t.co/uJQGfxYzNn. 2022 Mirror Award winner.
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Nov 12, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
🧵1. I can report that 3 Doctors Without Borders/MSF staff currently at Shifa Hospital said today they've never seen the woman in this apparently fake video which was viewed +12 million times before being deleted from an Israeli gov't account. This closely echoes a 2011 hoax ... 2. In 2011, the Israeli gov't shared a YouTube video by a man who claimed to be an Israeli gay rights activist who said he was discriminated against by Gaza flotilla organizers. The video was exposed as a hoax and @jonronson set out to find the actor in it
Oct 17, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
This tweet was just edited to remove video @Israel presented as evidence that Gaza hospital was struck in an outgoing barrage fired by militants — likely because NYT reporter @AricToler had already noted the clip was recorded about 8pm local time, 40 minutes after hospital strike I wasn't quick enough but @AliAbunimah made this screenshot of the unedited tweet from @Israel — before the debunked video was removed Image
Jun 28, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Seems overlooked that Mark Meadows's memoir undercuts Trump's claim that he showed the book's ghostwriter and publisher articles, not a war plan. It cites Trump talking about "a four-page report typed up by Mark Milley himself. It contained the general’s own plan to attack Iran." The ghostwriter's account of this taped interview with Trump at Bedminster — written as if the comments were made to Meadows instead of to the writer and publisher — is found in the prologue to his worst-selling book, "The Chief's Chief." amazon.com/Chiefs-Chief-M…
Apr 21, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Mission accomplished. While everyone was distracted by his blue-check removals, Musks's Twitter deleted labels that alerted users that they were reading news from state-run propaganda outlets of authoritarian governments. Potemkin news channels now free to inject disinformation. ImageImageImageImage ImageImageImageImage
Dec 2, 2021 12 tweets 5 min read
1. Brave of Andy Ngo to refuse to reply to my request for comment on his debunked claim that the Dayton mass shooter was "an antifa militant," and then block me after my article proved he made serial reporting errors so his fans won't be exposed to my further debunking of his BS 2. But anyone interested in how Ngo shares false information and cherry-picks facts to mislead his readers - satisfying their biases, but abusing their trust - should look at how he reacted to my report detailing his factual errors in describing a 2019 anti-KKK protest in Dayton
May 16, 2021 17 tweets 5 min read
1 There's no point in arguing with bad-faith actors willing to lie about my work to mislead followers who don't read or watch it, but I will respond here to blatant lies about my video and print piece looking at how Fox News uses viral video of violence at protests to smear BLM 2 My piece begins with an example of how the viral video-to-Fox News pipeline works, by showing a conservative journalist getting video and then going on Fox to talk about it with Laura Ingraham. He is a regular Fox guest, as are 7 of the videographers whose work I discuss.
Jan 27, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
Has anyone identified this rioter who smashed the glass door to the Speaker's Lobby Ashli Babbitt jumped through? He was wearing an Inter Milan jersey with a $325 Canada Goose aviator hat over his MAGA cap. His voice is clear here: cc @DavidClinchNews @samueloakford @evanchill @EliotHiggins @DeborahAcosta
Feb 27, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Warren is correct that Bernie Sanders did argue that he should stay in the race in 2016 because the super delegates could choose him to be the nominee at the convention, even though Hillary Clinton won a majority of pledged delegates and the popular vote It's important to recall when Sanders made this argument - before the final primaries and caucuses had been contested - and that he abandoned it and endorsed Clinton before the convention. It was a case for not dropping out before all the votes were cast