[sauropod]

“Mithil Aggarwal is a student in Hong Kong and the host of the Curiously Candid podcast.”

Dunno if this is still true, but it turned up in my first few search hits on this dude.

PROPAGANDA

[DoodleBob]

Stay with me....this "story" is possibly part of a tactical, coordinated, long-term plan to distort the record on firearms data.

There was a story in December 2022 that the CDC reportedly removed statistics on defensive gun use in the U.S. following pressure from gun control advocates..

"[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again," Mark Bryant, executive director of the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to the CDC in one of the emails. "It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value — even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions."

I dug in at that time. Mark Bryant has his own proprietary, COMPETING dataset of firearms incidents.. Aaaaand guess which database that is? You guessed it, gunviolencearchive.org-which underpins this "story" from ABC.

Further, Slate is also behind this "database".

In a nutshell, the CDC stopped tracking this data. In steps the (clearly biased) Mark Bryant / Slate "database" as the "press" is herded like cattle to this trough. Right on schedule, a nice piece of manure with lipstick comes via the MSM a month later.

Parenthetically, Mark's data swamp isn't accessible if you have a vpn....hmmm.....