We mentioned to y’all that the New York Times (along with a lot of others in the press) spread covid disinformation and misinformation. You may not know this, but small and independent websites labor under an oppressive regime imposed by the tech giants, which punish you in hundreds of creative ways for talking about any aspect of Covid they feel like you shouldn’t. They especially hit the wallet (of course dear readers can always hit the “tip jar” so to speak if they wish to protest.)
But when big name publications do actual disinfo they suffer no ill fortune. Take what happened yesterday.
Reminder: yesterday an official in the Biden White House accused both the Washington Post and New York Times of spreading dangerously misleading information regarding COVID and vaccines. Can someone please explain how this doesn't make the two papers guilty of "misinformation"?
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 31, 2021
And the reason they get away with it is exactly what you know it is. Double Standard based not on prestige, background, credibility, size, or budget. The New York Post found that out.
It’s based singularly on that ONE thing.
If these COVID tweets and articles had come from right-wing sites or independent journalists — instead of the NYT and WPost — they would have been labelled as misinformation, deleted or banned from social media platforms.
Censorship regimes always favor the establishment: https://t.co/RjJsmFCGmg
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 31, 2021
If you’re with the Democrats, then Big Tech is with you. And if you’re not, well then guess what…
COUGH.
Bonus tweet:
I genuinely think a non-trivial number of liberals would favor that proposal.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 31, 2021
Correct.
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