There’s been a ton of talk in political and media circles over the last several years about the role social media companies play in the spread of information and misinformation on the Internet. Because this year was a presidential election year, that talk ramped up tenfold – so much so that even Senate hearings were held after Twitter and Facebook took it upon themselves to throttle the NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories. A Senate hearing was held on the matter where, of course, nothing got resolved.

And in the aftermath of last week’s elections, “news” outlets like CNN, the New York Times, and other left-leaning media organizations have made it a point to more closely monitor the links they see posted on platforms like Facebook and Twitter from conservative websites (they don’t give a rip what the liberal ones say, for reasons that should be obvious to everyone). They have done this under the guise of trying to prevent the post-election “spread of disinformation”, but one NYT tech reporter accidentally gave up the game in tweets posted to his account last night on what he had allegedly observed from three conservative websites (and four stories).

Here’s what the Times’ tech writer Kevin Roose “reported”:

Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now. These are all among the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours (per @NewsWhip data) pic.twitter.com/WlTR10fRBE

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 10, 2020

The problem with his little investigation is that the reports posted at those sites are not “misinformation” and they’re not untrue, as even he noted in a later tweet:

The tricky thing, for Facebook, is that some of the most viral stories aren't strictly false. (Perdue + Loeffler *did* call for the SOS's resignation.) But they are feeding a stolen election narrative that is going to be hard to dial back.

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 10, 2020

Roose’s original claim (which was retweeted by CNN’s Brian Stelter, natch) was absolutely shredded by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, and others who – in turn – have been paying close attention to and calling out how Big Tech and Big Media like to team up together to suppress conservative content they don’t like under the pretense of preventing fake news stores from going viral:

All of these headlines are true.

"Misinformation" = facts liberal journalists don't like. https://t.co/ZTU5HIV4gb

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) November 10, 2020

These stories are not false, of course. But Kevin Roose's actual job — like so many of our tech activists — is not to spot misinformation. It is to badger social media giants into censoring conservative outlets. https://t.co/H3oXMR4Egp

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 10, 2020

From NYT tech columnist. Problem is, stories are accurate. Later in thread, concedes that articles 'aren't strictly false,' but encourage a 'stolen election narrative that is going to be hard to dial back.' Rationale for broad censorship. https://t.co/X8umlMZ4Xr

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 10, 2020

RedState’s own Brad Slager had an excellent suggestion:

These are in fact accurate stories.

We need a new term for when reporters describe factual stories as being “misinformation”, in order to fuel their own false narratives. https://t.co/qwmyMopK8D

— Brad Slager Mail-splaining and Voter Resignation (@MartiniShark) November 10, 2020

And here’s a hilarious sidenote to Roose’s “Karen-esque” rant: Two of the stories he flagged as “misinformation” actually originated from … the New York Times:

Someone should tell The New York Times' columnist that his own newspaper is promoting "right-wing misinformation" pic.twitter.com/aSMcvUV7AN

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 10, 2020

Can’t make this stuff up.

In any event, Glenn Greenwald leaves us with some food for thought on just how pervasive Roose’s mindset is throughout the tech/media industries, which is a reminder of how such mindsets must be fought by alternative news and information sources every single step of the way:

Key detail in this @NYMag story on the pro-censorship movement inside NYT by its own employees: NYT tech reporters were angry that the anti-censorship posture of NYT editors would impede their campaign to pressure Silicon Valley to censor more robustly:https://t.co/EGbfEVuTSZ pic.twitter.com/GXh7S7K8JX

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 9, 2020

Just ponder the warped mentality of someone who chooses journalism as a career, then devotes themselves to trying to silence the ability of others to be heard by converting themselves into petulant tattletales who demand that Facebook, Twitter & Google censor dissenting voices.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 9, 2020

The stat that tells it all: NYT is now every bit as partisan and ideologically insular as Fox and MSNBC, talking only to hard-core Democrats, with CNN and NPR very close behind, leaving these institutions financially dependent on never reporting things that anger their audience: pic.twitter.com/hGLSNk824F

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 9, 2020

Never bend the knee to these people. Ever.

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