{"id":55794,"date":"2022-12-21T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55794"},"modified":"2022-12-22T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:36:28","slug":"fox-news-spreads-blatant-lie-that-the-fbi-paid-3-5m-to-suppress-hunter-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55794","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Spreads Blatant Lie that the ‘FBI Paid $3.5M To Suppress Hunter Laptop Story’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of weeks Elon Musk has been dispatching his flagrantly biased and incurious yellow journalists to propagate obvious falsehoods about Twitter’s previous management. His intent has been to discredit them as disreputable Trump haters and submissive servants of clandestine FBI handlers.<\/p>\n

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After seven tediously long document dumps of what were private, internal communications, Musk and Company pitifully failed to prove their predetermined conclusions, or whatever they imagined was their point. To the contrary, these much ballyhooed excretions of mostly random and irrelevant emails actually proved that Twitter’s Trust and Safety team acted responsibly to protect the website – and the nation – from documented propaganda and disinformation by Russia and other hostile foreign actors.<\/p>\n

Musk’s minions only succeeded in showing that Twitter’s staff was not biased against Trump. In fact, they were decidedly fair in their analysis and decisions. But that didn’t stop the right-wingnut echo chamber from latching onto Musk’s muckrakers, especially Donald Trump…<\/p>\n

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The latest batch from the “Twitter Files”<\/em> trash heap (Part 7<\/a>) continued in the tradition of the previous six. This episode’s author, Michael Shellenberger, promised that he would “present evidence”<\/em> that the FBI sought to “discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden.”<\/em> Not only did he present no such evidence, he actually presented evidence of the opposite. Such as one email wherein<\/a> “Twitter debunked false claims”<\/em> of foreign influence. And another wherein<\/a> “Twitter’s [Yoel] Roth has pushed back against the FBI.”<\/p>\n

Despite that demonstration of fairness and good judgement, Fox News ran with a particularly deviated narrative. The headline for their “reporting”<\/em> said that the “FBI Paid $3.5M To Suppress Hunter Laptop Story.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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You have to go through a LOT of hoops to conclude that the FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.<\/p>\n

The email in question says Twitter collected $3,415,323 since Oct. 2019 to process legal requests made by the FBI. pic.twitter.com\/i0yTCEDcCD<\/a><\/p>\n

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n