{"id":1387691,"date":"2022-03-18T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387691"},"modified":"2022-03-18T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:15:19","slug":"left-wing-rating-agency-grades-media-that-botched-hunter-biden-story-with-100-percent-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-rating-agency-grades-media-that-botched-hunter-biden-story-with-100-percent-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Rating Agency Grades Media That Botched Hunter Biden Story With 100 Percent Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-wing-rating-agency-grades-media-that-botched-hunter-biden-story-with-100-percent-credibility%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387691&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden-e1647552227240.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>News groups dedicated to discrediting misinformation have a history of amplifying misinformation. On Wednesday, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/after-throttling-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-with-hacked-and-russian-disinformation-lies-propaganda-press-quietly-admit-it-was-completely-legit\/\">conceded<\/a> the authenticity of a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden whose content was found and published in October 2020 then censored as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The computer\u2019s files, first obtained by the New York Post after the laptop was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-joe-bidens-latest-scandals\/\">exposed<\/a> new layers of family corruption as then-former Vice President Joe Biden ran for the White House, with mere weeks to election day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmails,\u201d the Times wrote on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\">story<\/a> related to Hunter Biden\u2019s federal tax investigation, \u201cwere obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had the same statement been made in October 2020, and by a right-leaning news outlet, the Times\u2019 article would have been suppressed across Twitter and Facebook and its Twitter account suspended while rival outlets smeared the paper and any other publication as parroting Russian disinformation. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/18\/all-the-people-who-should-be-embarrassed-about-the-latest-hunter-biden-news-ranked\/\">exactly what happened<\/a> to the New York Post when it revealed Joe Biden had been lying when he denied ever discussing business with his son, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/28\/biden-brother-business-2020-1476815\">or with anyone else<\/a>.\u201d Another <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/15\/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons\">story<\/a> revealed Joe Biden stood to personally profit from his son\u2019s potentially criminal overseas business ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The state-funded editors of National Propaganda Radio (NPR) announced days after the first trove of stories from the laptop were published that the government news operation would continue to ignore the blockbuster revelations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories,\u201d NPR editors wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jake Sherman, a Politico writer at the time, apologized for even tweeting the story from the New York Post. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"bdJGWqiAz6Q75HpfkXcSZ1\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I tweeted a link to the NYP story right after it dropped yesterday morning. I immediately reached out to the Biden campaign to see if they had any answer. I wish i had given the story a closer read before tweeting it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@twitter<\/a> suspended me <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lk3c2Vd7d2\">pic.twitter.com\/Lk3c2Vd7d2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1316781581785337857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Politico then <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/25\/politico-scoop-on-biden-laptop-proves-the-dangers-of-disinformation-police\/\">claimed<\/a> nearly a year later in September to break a major scoop by confirming the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop, after it published dozens of former intelligence officials claiming the computer was likely an operation of Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a hostile interview with \u201c60 Minutes\u201d days before the election, CBS\u2019s Lesley Stahl <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/heres-all-the-evidence-lesley-stahl-falsely-claimed-doesnt-exist\/\">categorically rejected<\/a> the emails put the Biden family under any scandal at all. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be verified,\u201d she said of the laptop. \u201cIt can\u2019t be verified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/30\/smoking-gun-hunter-biden-email-confirmed-with-forensic-analysis\/\">forensic analysis<\/a> of the hard drive days later would verify the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s changed in the 18 months since? Joe Biden is now in office. There was never any significant evidence to suggest the laptop was anything but authentic. On the contrary, rare on-the-record statements from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/21\/fbi-doj-debunk-claims-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-is-russian-disinformation\/\">FBI, the Department of Justice<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/19\/intelligence-director-john-ratcliffe-debunks-russian-disinformation-theories-on-hunter-biden-emails\/\">Department of National Intelligence<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/pompeo-agrees-hunter-bidens-laptop-not-part-of-russian-operation\">Department of State<\/a> refuted the assertion Hunter Biden\u2019s hard drive was a fabricated artifact of Russian interference. <\/p>\n<p>NewsGuard is a \u201cfact checking\u201d partner that works to determine whether news stories are \u201cmisinformation\u201d and therefore merit censorship. Its website says it partners with Bing, MSN, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, the World Health Organization, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly every outlet that opted to ignore or discredit the Post\u2019s reporting maintains a near-perfect rating from NewsGuard\u2019s accuracy and credibility score. <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/politico.com\">Politico<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/npr.org\">NPR<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/nytimes.com\">The New York Times<\/a> maintain a favorable 100\/100 rating while <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/cbsnews.com\">CBS<\/a> scores a 95\/100. <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/nypost.com\">The New York Post<\/a>, on the other hand, suffers a grade of 69.5\/100, and <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/thefederalist.com\">The Federalist<\/a>, 12.5\/100. <\/p>\n<p>The same left-wing misinformation group whose leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimWarren55\/status\/1316825487596023809?s=20&#038;t=8azr3GvlXL7dqNF_C5LU5g\">also claimed<\/a> the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation has<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/27\/left-wing-misinformation-group-will-help-teachers-union-indoctrinate-students-with-corrupt-media-propaganda\/\"> teamed <\/a>with the American Federation of Teachers to implement its \u201cNutrition Label\u201d reviews of outlets into classrooms nationwide. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"s2F4WPDOF2Ja8Jh66DcrZT8SLpvKmqkXyUyit3BemBqO1ljAtsSWruYURdxfhxXKP7g0HC4cbZYGoQlwLknn1VNbwGjzEo\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dubious Hunter Biden story prompts CNBC to let NewsGuard co-founder Steve Brill explain the difference between legitimately rating credibility of websites, and how Twitter\/FB selectively downplay, ban content. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qg4j04R7G7\">https:\/\/t.co\/qg4j04R7G7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Warren (@JimWarren55) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimWarren55\/status\/1316825487596023809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The partnership <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft.org\/press-release\/aft-partners-newsguard-combat-misinformation-online\">aims<\/a> to \u201cchampion legitimate journalism and fact-based reporting and to help educators and their students navigate a sea of online disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News groups dedicated to discrediting misinformation have a history of amplifying misinformation. 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