{"id":1483798,"date":"2022-05-19T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1483798"},"modified":"2022-05-19T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:01:52","slug":"how-democrats-use-disinformation-to-bury-negative-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-democrats-use-disinformation-to-bury-negative-press-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Democrats Use \u201cDisinformation\u201d to Bury Negative Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fhow-democrats-use-disinformation-to-bury-negative-press-2%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=1483798&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--><p><span>Aspiring MSNBC host Jen Psaki\u2019s penultimate White House press conference was an object lesson in how Democrats and their media allies work to undermine negative press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Psaki <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1524845466520801290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>dismissed<\/span><\/a><span> a <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/yes-safe-smoking-kits-include-free-crack-pipes-we-know-because-we-got-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> on taxpayer-funded crack pipes as a &#8220;bit of a conspiracy theory,&#8221; echoing the administration\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/liberal-media-white-house-crack-pipes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>response<\/span><\/a><span> to earlier stories on the subject. It\u2019s hardly the first time the Biden administration has cried conspiracy. The White House <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/invasion-fact-checkers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>often<\/span><\/a><span> waves away inconvenient stories as misinformation, a move that bolsters social media platforms\u2019 efforts to censor the stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden campaign deployed this tactic to great effect in 2020 when it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/how-big-tech-media-and-dems-killed-the-hunter-biden-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>worked<\/span><\/a><span> with social media companies to bury the <\/span><i><span>New York Post\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span>story<\/span> <span>about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. Twitter barred users from sharing the story, while other media outlets dutifully refused to report on the allegations until after the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1595826 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2B58A815-4B16-4339-A6B9-BC3EF8FCFFB0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2B58A815-4B16-4339-A6B9-BC3EF8FCFFB0-1.jpeg 607w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2B58A815-4B16-4339-A6B9-BC3EF8FCFFB0-289x300-1.jpeg 289w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2B58A815-4B16-4339-A6B9-BC3EF8FCFFB0-472x491-1.jpeg 472w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1595829 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3F2DAE1C-EC7D-4F61-A891-3B370EF8832C.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3F2DAE1C-EC7D-4F61-A891-3B370EF8832C-1.jpeg 603w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3F2DAE1C-EC7D-4F61-A891-3B370EF8832C-300x297-1.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3F2DAE1C-EC7D-4F61-A891-3B370EF8832C-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3F2DAE1C-EC7D-4F61-A891-3B370EF8832C-496x491-1.jpeg 496w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Never was this reflex clearer than during COVID-19. During the pandemic, numerous allegations that would eventually prove true or at least plausible were initially rejected as conspiracies. Senior administration officials insisted that COVID-19 emerged &#8220;naturally,&#8221; and media outlets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/the-media-called-the-lab-leak-story-a-conspiracy-theory-now-its-prompted-corrections--and-serious-new-reporting\/2021\/06\/10\/c93972e6-c7b2-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html\"><span>denounced<\/span><\/a><span> the lab leak theory as racist. Many of the same outlets have since changed course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1595832 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2CDF035F-2CA5-48F1-91C2-FE4BCACDB73D_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1082\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2CDF035F-2CA5-48F1-91C2-FE4BCACDB73D_4_5005_c-1.jpeg 1082w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2CDF035F-2CA5-48F1-91C2-FE4BCACDB73D_4_5005_c-300x60.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2CDF035F-2CA5-48F1-91C2-FE4BCACDB73D_4_5005_c-1024x205-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2CDF035F-2CA5-48F1-91C2-FE4BCACDB73D_4_5005_c-768x154.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2CDF035F-2CA5-48F1-91C2-FE4BCACDB73D_4_5005_c-736x148.jpeg 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1595835 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/35A88D8C-8C19-4A3A-90B8-C5C68A61DA5C_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1082\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/35A88D8C-8C19-4A3A-90B8-C5C68A61DA5C_4_5005_c-1.jpeg 1082w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/35A88D8C-8C19-4A3A-90B8-C5C68A61DA5C_4_5005_c-300x57.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/35A88D8C-8C19-4A3A-90B8-C5C68A61DA5C_4_5005_c-1024x194.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/35A88D8C-8C19-4A3A-90B8-C5C68A61DA5C_4_5005_c-768x146.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/35A88D8C-8C19-4A3A-90B8-C5C68A61DA5C_4_5005_c-736x139.jpeg 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to burying the lab leak theory, social media companies silenced criticism of Democrat-backed COVID mitigation strategies. Tech platforms slapped a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/18\/how-facebook-uses-fact-checking-to-suppress-scientific-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disinformation<\/a> label on content critical of masks, social distancing, and vaccine policies. Numerous accounts, including those of newspapers and whistleblowers, were <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2021\/05\/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-leak-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned<\/a> from social media platforms for sharing these stories.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the Biden administration seems poised to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/18\/biden-admin-pauses-disinformation-governance-board-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrap<\/a> a planned &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board,&#8221; Democrats show no signs of changing their approach on the issue. The Democratic National Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/who-we-are\/what-we-do\/disinfo\/comparative-social-media-policy-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> for the government to build a more robust partnership with tech companies to police what can be said on social media. Leading Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/20\/technology\/barack-obama-disinformation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including<\/a> former president Barack Obama, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/22\/1019346177\/democrats-want-to-hold-social-media-companies-responsible-for-health-misinformat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> for similar controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspiring MSNBC host Jen Psaki\u2019s penultimate White House press conference was an object lesson in how Democrats and their media allies work to undermine negative press. 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