Posted on 10/23/2020 3:31:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, with similar falsehoods. Their online posts are garnering astronomical numbers of shares on social media.
The fantastical rumors, which NBC News is declining to repeat verbatim, echo specific plot points central to "pizzagate," a viral disinformation campaign that predates QAnon but also falsely alleges a vast conspiracy of child abuse.
The disinformation campaign appears to have been successful in its goal of generating a smear against the former vice president's son. According to Google Trends, "human trafficking" is now the third-most common related search term for "Hunter Biden" in the last year, after "laptop" and "New York Post," which point to search interest around the unconfirmed allegations that a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden contained evidence of crimes.
But the child abuse conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden that emerged from the fringes of the internet began swirling before the New York Post article and can be traced to associates of former White House aide Steve Bannon.
Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communications and rhetoric at Syracuse University, said that pro-Trump trolls are "playing the hits from 2016" and hoping they stick with voters who didn't hear the first iteration of the rumor four years ago.
"This is gaslighting of the highest order," Phillips said. "This has been the Steve Bannon playbook this entire time. He has celebrated the strategy of 'flooding the zone with s---' — when you confuse people, when you make them angry, when you just sort of throw too many things at them for them to process."
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Brandy Zadrozny. Figures. She’s NBC’s pitbull to ensure a Biden victory.
If their jowels are flapping or the keyboards a tapping, they’re in defense mode. She didn’t seem to analyze facts or at the very least, verifiable evidence.
Boy, they really want to make sure we don't look behind the curtain and weigh this for ourselves.
Who says Pizzagate’s not real?
You know, one day the world may come to find out that “Pizzagate” was actually a real scandal...
Who can trust MEDIA to investigate/report potential wrongdoing by our political class...?
Who can trust the FBI and DOJ to faithfully/honestly prosecute any corruption linked to our political class...?
We’re getting pretty good at this, finally.
So verified e mails on Hunters laptop with a corroboration from a participant witness means nothing. That both Rudy Giuliani and Bernard Kerik turn over the laptop to the Delaware State Police is all but a ‘pizzagate’ desperate gaslighting sham. Nice try Nothing But Censors fake news.
Meet NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny — The Woman In Charge of Doxxing and Destroying Trump Supporters
The leftist lying liars who lie and yell “debunked” whenever the truth comes out about their evil doings.
Progress: they are reporting it.
Excellent.
The fantastical rumors, which NBC News is declining to repeat verbatim,
Chuckle.
Eat your heart out Pravda.
Have another slice, MSM.
“Joe Biden Pinches Nipple of Montana Senator’s 8-Year-Old Niece”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPs_79-hEg8
The Left do it non-stop. BTW, how’s the targeting and “doxing” of Trump supporters going, Brandy?
Yes, Oldeconomybuyer, NBC is Comcast — the nation’s #3 federally licensed telecom provider.
“with similar falsehoods, Qanon”. Once again these scum runners are creating a narrative for the pukes that follow them. Physical evidence does not qualify if you are a rat, circumstantial evidence with inside sources experts or reliable sources is all you need to trap a republican, conservative, supporter or trump
On Wednesday night, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson did a segment going after the work of NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny, saying, “Her job is personally seeking out and identifying information about anonymous Trump supporters online.”
After the segment aired, a number of other journalists — including some NBC News colleagues — came to her defense. NBC News PR tweeted a statement defending Zadrozny and saying, “Brandy is an incredible and meticulous reporter. We’re proud to call her our colleague.”
As a few people noted, it is interesting that there are no denials in all the defensive tweets in this article.
Kind of funny how Samantha Guthrie sneered at Qanon and human trafficking when her coworker had a lock on his door for years where he could lock in his female ‘guests’, allegedly sexually assault them and they couldn’t escape.
I’ll never for the life of me understand how Creepy feely Joe could get away with this so brazenly out in the open with video documenting such behavior. There are other YT videos too. Feeling up children in plain sight and no DemRats say boo? I find it shocking he gets a pass on all that pervy pedo behavior.
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