Then other outlets cite the first. The claim is laundered into authoritativeness.

And if you are smeared in this process and request a correction all of these outlets will point to each other’s coverage to say that their work should stand.

Ask me how I know lol…

This person is what’s known as a rent-a-quote: someone willing to say things that unethical media can point to as an authoritative source. “The executive director of this freedom-fighting foundation has made a shocking claim!” — and that’s the story. A claim. They don’t bother to interrogate it.

I am glad I left when I did.

"Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X." www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...

"While pundits have busied themselves over the past 10 days nitpicking Kamala Harris’s campaign, one thing is abundantly clear: She was held to the highest standards of leadership while Trump was held to no standard at all."

With Bluesky user numbers rocketing, more official news accounts are arriving.

Here is a starter pack of major media outlets.

Feel free to repost, I’ll keep this updated as more arrive.

👇 important point. I wrote about the common tropes as we did Election Integrity Partnership 2022 and saw the similarities to 2020…which themselves had echoes of voting rumors past. Also in here: good stuff from TV Tropes!

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The ousted Fox News anchor went to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin but was contradicted by the Kremlin when he insisted Western media refuse to talk to the Russian president.

Exactly. Try getting a security clearance with this kind of baggage as a normie. Surely he has one?

Chinese hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure have had access to some networks for years, and much earlier than previously known, per a new Five Eyes report to be released this week: www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/p... via @snlyngaas.bsky.social