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TO THE RESCUE: Associated Press Runs Pathetic Fact-Check Defending Biden Disinformation Czar
NewsBusters ^ | 5/17/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 05/17/2022 4:11:09 PM PDT by JV3MRC

The Associated Press desperately tried to defend the self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” from her own words and ended up undercutting itself in the process.

AP put out one of its so-called “fact-checks” headlined: “Old comments by disinformation board director misrepresented online.” The outlet took issue with users and outlets claiming Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) Executive Director Nina Jankowicz “said she wants verified Twitter users to be able to edit other users’ tweets” during a January 2021 video conference on “disinformation.” AP complained that such claims were “missing context.” According to the AP’s spin: “[Jankowicz] was explaining an existing program offered by Twitter [Birdwatch] that allows certain users to write notes contextualizing claims made in tweets.”

But the AP fact-check undermined itself by quoting Jankowicz in the 15th paragraph saying: “I like the idea of adding more context to claims and tweets and other content online rather than just removing it.” AP spun that Jankowicz “did not say she personally wanted verified users to edit tweets, nor has she said she plans to implement something similar through the [DGB].”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; blogpimp; factcheck; ninajankowicz

1 posted on 05/17/2022 4:11:09 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Well, then. We know that it’s BULLSHIT.


2 posted on 05/17/2022 4:14:06 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: JV3MRC

Pass it by Mz. Malarkey. She’ll set the record straight.


3 posted on 05/17/2022 4:18:02 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: JV3MRC

She comes across as a Clown, a Stand Up Comic.
She even looks a little like Sarah Bernhard.
You rememner Sarah. She was in that movie with Robert deNiro and Jerry Lewis. The King of Comedy.
It was back when deNiro made really good movies.


4 posted on 05/17/2022 4:24:15 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: JV3MRC

Will anyone get to edit her tweets?


5 posted on 05/17/2022 4:39:08 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: JV3MRC

Associated Press IIRC is owned by it’s membership, which of course is the mainstream Press. Expect them to always lean left.


6 posted on 05/17/2022 6:33:22 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (The only good Democrat is one that remains dead. )
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To: JV3MRC

The Biden loving editor of our local rag uses “factcheck” when presented with facts about Biden. The latest was when reports of baby formula being sent to the border for illegal aliens. The editor said it was false, citing factcheck, yet their “fact check” confirmed, indeed, baby formula is being set to the border for illegal aliens but the outrage is “faux outrage” therefore false. So many liars to protect this disgusting monster and his marxist destructive administration.


7 posted on 05/17/2022 7:22:52 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Secret groups attempting to manipulate public opinion?? What used to be crazy is not so crazy anymore.

https://www.revolver.news/2022/05/biden-minster-of-truth-nina-jankowicz-and-the-secret-nato-funded-cabal-to-subvert-western-democracies-using-disinformation-as-cover/

...SNIP....

"Whatever one thinks of the precise term “deep state,” Nina badly wants everyone to dismiss the very concept of secret groups operating within Washington. She works “with and around” them after all, and she says such a cabal or network of cabals does not exist.

In fact, Nina does know the truth, and it’s the opposite of what she claims above. Nina’s name appeared in one of the most explosive and aggressively censored national security leaks of the century. The leak in question exposed the “Integrity Initiative,” a dark government-funded NGO that appears to have engaged in political meddling and covert influence operations in Western countries under the guise of fighting “disinformation.”

Founded in mid-2015 under the auspices of the U.K. government-funded NGO “Institute for Statecraft,” the Integrity Initiative boasted a precociously fashionable motto: “Defending Democracy Against Disinformation.”..SNIP

Nina Jankowicz’s name appears in a 2018 leak as a member of the “inner core” of the Integrity Initiative’s U.K. Cluster, specifically in the sub-group dedicated to Russia.

(MORE AT LINK)

People can make up their own minds. Nina seems just nuts enough to really be part of some secret cabal.

8 posted on 05/17/2022 9:13:54 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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If the Deep State doesn’t like something, they just edit it. Like when the FBI 302 was changed from Carter Page is a CIA asset to Carter Page is not a CIA asset. See? That was easy....


9 posted on 05/17/2022 9:18:43 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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