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04-12-2022, 11:57 AM
CNN lead the charge with censorship and outright lying.
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CNN's long history of pushing disinformation, here are five examples
One false story by network led CNN to give massive payout to Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann
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Russia collusion
CNN pundits, reporters and anchors alike promoted the since-debunked narrative that then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia ahead of the 2016 election.
In segment after segment, CNN personalities claimed they saw "the walls closing in" on Trump until Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report found there was no collusion. Before the left’s once-favorite narrative was debunked, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said Trump was "lashing out" because "the walls are closing in" when discussing a series of tweets Trump sent that were critical of Mueller.
"He’s desperate. He’s obviously flailing around because he knows—he feels the walls closing in," Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe echoed to then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.
The liberal network also put the also-discredited Steele dossier at the forefront in their coverage after it reported that then-President-elect Donald Trump was officially briefed on what came to be known as the Steele dossier.
CNN talking heads made it a habit to claim the dossier was not discredited or disproven throughout their coverage in 2017 and 2018. Anchor and ex-Obama official Jim Sciutto relentlessly defended the dossier, repeatedly saying it was "corroborated" and at one point calling it "not bogus."
The dossier provided the roadmap for the liberal media to paint the former president as compromised by the Kremlin and even a possible sexual deviant. However, Special Counsel John Durham indicted Russian national Igor Danchenko, who is believed to be the sub-source for former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier last year. The narrative pertaining the dossier fell completely apart when Danchenko was charged with making false statements to the FBI.
Hunter Biden laptop
CNN spent months downplaying and dismissing the relevancy of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, which has since been confirmed as authentic by the Washington Post and New York Times.
The network refused to report on the laptop and was caught spiking the story in an editorial meeting that was recorded and published by Project Veritas. Once CNN decided to mention the laptop, its hosts and pundits often chalked it up as "Russian disinformation."
CNN’s "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" was particularly egregious on Oct. 16, 2020 when Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., joined the program to discuss the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden’s questionable, overseas business dealings.
"Serious questions tonight about whether the Russians are using Rudy Giuliani to interfere in the U.S. presidential election … There are fears that what Giuliani is now pushing here in the United States could actually be part of Russia's latest and very massive disinformation campaign in the U.S. presidential election," Blitzer asserted.
CNN senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt reported about how the FBI was investigating whether Hunter Biden's emails were part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
"We are being told by two people who've been briefed on what the FBI is doing that they're looking into whether these unverified e-mails about Hunter Biden that were published earlier this week by the New York Post about his business dealings in Ukraine and China are part of these bigger Russian disinformation efforts in the 2020 election," Marquardt said.
Blitzer and Schiff called the laptop story a "false narrative" put out by the Kremlin as they agreed with each other’s every word. Later that day, CNN national security analyst James Clapper appeared on "OutFront with Erin Burnett" to dismiss the laptop story, and called it "classic, textbook, Soviet, Russian trade craft at work."
Nick Sandmann
In 2020, CNN settled a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and his legal team over the network’s inaccurate coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as an aggressor.
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Misrepresenting Ivermectin and Joe Rogan
A variety of CNN pundits and hosts accused podcasting giant Joe Rogan of taking "horse dewormer" last year after he announced he was taking Ivermectin, prescribed to him by a doctor, among other treatments after testing positive for coronavirus.
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Jussie Smollett
CNN helped promote Jussie Smollett’s since-discredited 2019 claim that he was attacked by two MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporters at 2 a.m. during the polar vortex in Chicago.
Rest - https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-disinformation-examples-smollett-collusion-covington-rogan-media
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CNN's long history of pushing disinformation, here are five examples
One false story by network led CNN to give massive payout to Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann
... (skipped opening) ...
Russia collusion
CNN pundits, reporters and anchors alike promoted the since-debunked narrative that then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia ahead of the 2016 election.
In segment after segment, CNN personalities claimed they saw "the walls closing in" on Trump until Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report found there was no collusion. Before the left’s once-favorite narrative was debunked, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said Trump was "lashing out" because "the walls are closing in" when discussing a series of tweets Trump sent that were critical of Mueller.
"He’s desperate. He’s obviously flailing around because he knows—he feels the walls closing in," Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe echoed to then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.
The liberal network also put the also-discredited Steele dossier at the forefront in their coverage after it reported that then-President-elect Donald Trump was officially briefed on what came to be known as the Steele dossier.
CNN talking heads made it a habit to claim the dossier was not discredited or disproven throughout their coverage in 2017 and 2018. Anchor and ex-Obama official Jim Sciutto relentlessly defended the dossier, repeatedly saying it was "corroborated" and at one point calling it "not bogus."
The dossier provided the roadmap for the liberal media to paint the former president as compromised by the Kremlin and even a possible sexual deviant. However, Special Counsel John Durham indicted Russian national Igor Danchenko, who is believed to be the sub-source for former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier last year. The narrative pertaining the dossier fell completely apart when Danchenko was charged with making false statements to the FBI.
Hunter Biden laptop
CNN spent months downplaying and dismissing the relevancy of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, which has since been confirmed as authentic by the Washington Post and New York Times.
The network refused to report on the laptop and was caught spiking the story in an editorial meeting that was recorded and published by Project Veritas. Once CNN decided to mention the laptop, its hosts and pundits often chalked it up as "Russian disinformation."
CNN’s "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" was particularly egregious on Oct. 16, 2020 when Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., joined the program to discuss the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden’s questionable, overseas business dealings.
"Serious questions tonight about whether the Russians are using Rudy Giuliani to interfere in the U.S. presidential election … There are fears that what Giuliani is now pushing here in the United States could actually be part of Russia's latest and very massive disinformation campaign in the U.S. presidential election," Blitzer asserted.
CNN senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt reported about how the FBI was investigating whether Hunter Biden's emails were part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
"We are being told by two people who've been briefed on what the FBI is doing that they're looking into whether these unverified e-mails about Hunter Biden that were published earlier this week by the New York Post about his business dealings in Ukraine and China are part of these bigger Russian disinformation efforts in the 2020 election," Marquardt said.
Blitzer and Schiff called the laptop story a "false narrative" put out by the Kremlin as they agreed with each other’s every word. Later that day, CNN national security analyst James Clapper appeared on "OutFront with Erin Burnett" to dismiss the laptop story, and called it "classic, textbook, Soviet, Russian trade craft at work."
Nick Sandmann
In 2020, CNN settled a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and his legal team over the network’s inaccurate coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as an aggressor.
...
Misrepresenting Ivermectin and Joe Rogan
A variety of CNN pundits and hosts accused podcasting giant Joe Rogan of taking "horse dewormer" last year after he announced he was taking Ivermectin, prescribed to him by a doctor, among other treatments after testing positive for coronavirus.
...
Jussie Smollett
CNN helped promote Jussie Smollett’s since-discredited 2019 claim that he was attacked by two MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporters at 2 a.m. during the polar vortex in Chicago.
Rest - https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-disinformation-examples-smollett-collusion-covington-rogan-media