Posted on 03/16/2024 3:00:57 AM PDT by lowbridge
Vice News published a story last fall asserting that Libs of TikTok, the popular social media account run by Chaya Raichik, was responsible for a rise in school bomb threats.
The reporter, Tess Owen, wrote that “bomb threats targeting schools or school districts following Libs of TikTok posts appears to be a particularly ominous escalation.” She then cited a “disturbing pattern” from 11 school districts.
Newly obtained emails, released Thursday by Raichik, suggest that Owen wasn’t completely truthful in her reporting.
In a post on X, Libs of TikTok claimed Vice News and Owen “knowingly withheld critical information about me because it didn’t fit their narrative.”
In her Oct. 4, 2023, story, Owen wrote:
Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota was targeted in Libs of TikTok posts on September 13 and 14. They received a bomb threat by email on September 15. The district’s director of communications Jim Skelly told VICE News that it was unusual for the district to receive threats directly by email such as this one. This was the second direct threat that the district, which is Minnesota’s largest, received in the last two years. More commonplace threats usually come from students or are made via social media and are quickly processed as “non-credible” by law enforcement, said Skelly.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project obtained copies of Owen’s correspondence with Anoka-Hennepin School District and Raichik released them Thursday. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news outlet.)
Owen neglected to reveal two key details Skelly told her, according to their Sept. 28, 2023, email exchange.
“The district did receive a ‘threat’ via email on Sept. 15 which was quickly determined to be non-credible by law enforcement.”“The district has no information linking this bomb threat to the Libs of TikTok messaging.”
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The last sentence of the article is the best, “Owen was laid off last month when Vice Media made significant personnel cuts and ceased publishing on Vice.com.”
Being a Leftist A-hole means never having to say you’re sorry.
And not only that, but it means you never have to say you were wrong.
(Reporter Leaves Out Key Facts in Hit Piece on Libs of TikTok)
It’s their standard pattern
A reporter left out key facts? No, I don’t believe it. /s/
It’s not the guns, it’s your sons.
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