Posted on 11/16/2021 1:24:33 PM PST by george76
The Twitter executive responsible for blocking stories about Hunter Biden's laptop is one of several advisers to the Aspen Institute's disinformation commission.
Yoel Roth is one of several questionable advisers to Aspen's Commission on Information Disorder, which on Monday released its much-anticipated report. Commission members include Katie Couric, who recently acknowledged that she edited comments on National Anthem protests out of a 2016 interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg to preserve the justice's reputation with liberals. Another commissioner, Rashad Robinson, helped fuel actor Jussie Smollett's hate crime hoax.
Commission members' censorship of legitimate news stories could undercut their lofty mission. The commission blamed "decreasing levels of public trust" in public institutions for the crisis, which it dubs a "whole-of-society problem that can have life-or-death consequences." Its report calls for Congress and the White House to take action to counteract disinformation.
Roth, the head of site integrity at Twitter, blocked access to an Oct. 14, 2020, New York Post article regarding emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. Roth told the Federal Elections Commission he blocked the story in part because the intelligence community had briefed him that foreign governments might release hacked materials prior to the election. No evidence has emerged that Biden's laptop was stolen or hacked, and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has since acknowledged that the company should not have blocked links to the story.
The Aspen Commission report criticizes Twitter and other social media companies for failures to rein in disinformation but does not cite Twitter's censorship of the Biden article.
The tech billionaire who funded the commission, Craig Newmark, has sponsored research that pushed disinformation about Biden's laptop. Newmark paid for a study from New York University that asserted that social media companies are not biased against conservatives. The report defended Twitter's decision to block the Hunter Biden laptop story and pushed the unsubstantiated claim that the news reports were based on "stolen" documents.
Undisclosed in either the Aspen Institute report or the New York University study is that Newmark donated more than $100,000 to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
Robinson, the president of the racial justice group Color of Change, repeatedly circulated the false claim that Smollett, who is black and gay, was attacked by two white Trump supporters who hurled bigoted slurs at him. Robinson pushed the hate crime allegation even after evidence emerged that Smollett staged the attack.
Another commission adviser, Renee DiResta, advised American Engagement Technologies, a tech company that created fake online personas to stifle the Republican vote in the 2017 special Senate election in Alabama. The company, which was funded by progressive tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, created fake Russian bots to follow the Republican candidate. DiResta denied knowledge of the Alabama initiative and later joined another tech company, New Knowledge, that took part in the disinformation project.
The Aspen Institute did not respond to requests for comment.
“Hello. We’re the foxes, and we’ve come to guard your hen house real good.” Just a minor credibility issue.
You got this from Babalyon Bee. Right?
Prince Harry appointed as commissioner at Aspen Institute to tackle misinformation in the media
Still wondering how much of this crap has to do with the House of Windsor's Epstein Problem...
Reminds me of Scooter Libby’s letter to Judith Miller about the connected roots of aspen trees. The Aspen Institute was sabotaging things in 2004, too.
Mr. No Misinformation Halfwit and his vile wife just got outed as lying to the public (and her to a court of law) about their participation in the writing of a book detailing their many, many tales of woe and hardship.
So, where’s The Post’s Pulitzer for Its Hunter Biden exposé?
nypost.com ^ | October 12, 2021 | MICHAEL GOODWIN
FR Posted on 11/19/2021, 11:38:33 AM by Liz
The Post was among the first to expose Joe and Hunter Biden’s utter corruption. On this, its first anniversary, the Hunter Biden saga remains an outrageous scandal for two reasons...
....it revealed how Joe Biden’s brothers and son got big payments domestically and from foreign governments and nationals for years while he held public office. .......emails reveal a sordid pattern of deals with oligarchs, Chinese Communists and thugs that brought the Biden family tens of millions of dollars.
There was correspondence showing Joe aided Hunter by meeting with his foreign associates.
The second scandal is that many Americans are still unaware of the Biden deals and Joe’s involvement because of the embargo by major outlets.
That embargo, which largely continues today, revealed the coordinated corruption of Big Media and Big Tech. ......they swallowed whole the Biden campaign claim of “Russian disinformation” and were aided and abetted by Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.......the same outlets and tech giants that breathlessly promoted the Russia, Russia, Russia fiction about Donald Trump ignored the Biden scandal.
The Times won a Pulitzer for its reporting on a dirty trick concocted by Hillary Clinton and weaponized by the Obama-Biden administration.
Yet the Times has never admitted its Russia error nor revealed the truth of the Clinton role and that of the Obama-Biden White House.
Nor has it exhibited much curiosity about the full extent of the Biden family’s foreign entanglements and whether Joe has been compromised by secret deals.
The possible implications of the Biden family connection are astounding — and dangerous. With China emerging as America’s most potent and determined adversary ......we have far more evidence that Biden is compromised by China than we ever had that Trump was compromised by Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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