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NY Times, far-left Media Matters ‘strong-arming YouTube’ to silence conservatives, Ben Shapiro says
Fox News ^ | October 29, 2024 | Brian Flood

Posted on 10/29/2024 2:23:55 PM PDT by george76

Media Matters known for organizing pressure campaigns against conservative voices it opposes..

Ben Shapiro accused The New York Times of working with far-left advocacy group Media Matters for America in order to get anyone who opposed Kamala Harris silenced on YouTube, supplying screenshots of a reporter who noted he was working with the progressive organization.

Media Matters, founded in 2004 by longtime Clinton ally David Brock, is often cited by legacy news organizations as a media watchdog. It has built a reputation for organizing pressure campaigns against conservative voices it opposes, including boycott movements. Shapiro took to social media to reveal that he might be the group’s next target.

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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro accused The New York Times of colluding with far-left advocacy group Media Matters for America in order to get anyone who opposed Kamala Harris silenced on YouTube.

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Shapiro said the Times is using "research from Media Matters, a radical Left-wing organization whose sole purpose is destroying conservative media , in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives" one week before the presidential election.

"That's the entire game here. Run an article in America's ‘most trusted newspaper’ that declares pretty much every major conservative a purveyor of ‘misinformation’ on YouTube, thus strong-arming YouTube into taking action against conservatives," Shaprio wrote.

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Media Matters is bankrolled by some of the biggest Democratic megadonors in the country. Critics have slammed Media Matters earning a tax-exempted status despite being an overtly political organization. It was the subject of mockery in 2020 when it received a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan between "$1-2 million" from the Trump administration despite its constant criticism of Trump's response to the COVID pandemic, including the PPP.

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1 posted on 10/29/2024 2:23:55 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Tucker received the same text.

He responded Phu*k Off.


2 posted on 10/29/2024 2:29:05 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Benny Johnson was just informed the New York Times is writing a hit piece on him, too.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1851365207182123018


3 posted on 10/29/2024 2:31:21 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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I have noticed that I am not getting the videos I normally would get. My “right winged news videos are coming late or not at all. And I am getting all sorts of videos that are generally unimportant. Things I would never watch. Its been going on for about two to three weeks.


4 posted on 10/29/2024 2:40:12 PM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: george76

Ben Shapiro’s response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBJiHACcA50


5 posted on 10/29/2024 2:40:54 PM PDT by libh8er
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Questions Have you ever been punished by YouTube? Demonetized ?

I'm not sure that's a NYT reporter. He had to know they would share it far and wide. Why would NYT stir up free speech loving voters?

Probably making public an enemies list for their rioters. When Kamala loses, November 6 until, the left begins Operation Chaos and Destruction. Networks will all say “the NYT discovered Tucker blah blah. He's Hitler too”

6 posted on 10/29/2024 2:43:40 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: george76

YouTube is a COW. It shits like a cow, it shits on everybody and stinks the place but, it doesn’t shit on its leftist fascist investors. What do you do with sacred fascist cows that shits on people? You grind them up into hamburger meat.


7 posted on 10/29/2024 2:55:31 PM PDT by BEJ
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“The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” L.Star. it’s just how liberals roll.


8 posted on 10/29/2024 3:11:24 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First ges secnd" L.Star)
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They don’t need to “strong arm” because they are all of the same ilk. YouTube will point the finger at anyone to keep a finger from pointing at them.


9 posted on 10/29/2024 3:59:04 PM PDT by webheart
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To: george76

YouTube is playing games with their users and creators.
Share a YouTube video and see what you get. There’s no cover. What shows is YouTube patting themselves on the back ad.The link does take you to the vid you shared though. I suspect this will be until after the election.


10 posted on 10/29/2024 4:04:07 PM PDT by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: george76

Media Matters is leftist crap.


11 posted on 10/29/2024 4:24:46 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: george76

That is funny, no one needs to strong arm Youtube. They are owned by Google. And Google is a tool of the government. They are all in without any outside influence.


12 posted on 10/29/2024 4:57:12 PM PDT by Openurmind
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