An investigative journalist has denounced the fact-checking site PolitiFact for denying that the Biden-Harris administration engaged in censorship at an industrial scale.
Michael Shellenberger, who was among the independent journalists behind the release of Twitter Files, looked at this verdict from the site and the arguments PolitiFact used. He rejected the notion that suppressing voters’ free speech was “not a threat to democracy.” According to Shellenberger, the nonprofit run by the Poynter Institute is “part and parcel of the censorship-industrial complex.”
To back up his argument, Shellenberger released a new batch of Twitter Files showing how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convinced Twitter (before its transformation as Elon Musk’s X) that the Hunter Biden laptop story was misinformation. At the center of the social media platform’s decision to suppress the story was Jim Baker, former deputy legal counsel at Twitter. Prior to joining the Big Tech company, Baker had a similar role at the FBI.
Both Baker and the bureau collaborated to convince Twitter that the contents of the so-called “laptop from hell” were hacked from another source by Russian agents. The contents were reportedly put on the aforementioned device that the New York Post made a report on.
“During all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed [Twitter’s head of trust and safety] Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian ‘hack and leak’ operation,” Shellenberger wrote. In contrast to this claim of Russians being active on the platform, “Twitter executives ‘repeatedly’ reported very little Russian activity.” […]
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