{"id":1558076,"date":"2022-07-17T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558076"},"modified":"2022-07-17T06:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:49:30","slug":"lol-npr-launches-disinformation-reporting-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lol-npr-launches-disinformation-reporting-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Lol: NPR Launches &#8220;Disinformation Reporting Team&#8221;"},"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\">12<\/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%2Flol-npr-launches-disinformation-reporting-team%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=1558076&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><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/npr-dave-chappelle-white-privilege\">National Public Radio<\/a> (NPR) announced the creation of their &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/npr-extra\/2022\/07\/15\/1111727112\/npr-launches-disinformation-reporting-team\">Disinformation Reporting Team<\/a>&#8221; on Friday in a note to newsroom staff. The outlet has been guilty itself of spreading disinformation and misinformation, most notably penning an article about why they would not report on Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8220;laptop from hell,&#8221; rather than actually issuing a report on its contents.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>On Twitter, NPR contributor Casey Morell tweeted about the new disinformation division and wrote, &#8220;some great company news: we&#8217;re launching a disinformation team.&#8221; Within moments, multiple users posted responses about the company&#8217;s many instances of spreading disinformation ranging from their neglect of the 2020 Hunter Biden story to recent reporting about dinosaurs belonging exclusively to the trans community.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">some great company news: we&#8217;re launching a disinformation team <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWzxt5yIjL\">https:\/\/t.co\/LWzxt5yIjL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 casey morell (@csymrl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/csymrl\/status\/1548021509242859529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The intrepid team making up NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/npr-extra\/2022\/07\/15\/1111727112\/npr-launches-disinformation-reporting-team\">disinformation board<\/a> are the &#8220;unflappable and generous&#8221; Shannon Bond, the &#8220;data-savvy&#8221; Huo Jingnan, expert in &#8220;voting rights and election security&#8221; Brett Neely, and Lisa Hagen who &#8220;helps humanize the unfamiliar&#8221; by reporting on the &#8220;most radical wing of the gun rights movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Fox News contributor Gregg Re tweeted, &#8220;Does your managing editor still think the hunter Biden laptop is not a real story ?&#8221; Re linked to a 2020 tweet from NPR&#8217;s public editor telling the world why the outlet wasn&#8217;t going to report on the Hunter Biden Story.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does your managing editor still think the hunter Biden laptop is not a real story ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4f6BdtMAWC\">pic.twitter.com\/4f6BdtMAWC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gregg Re (@gregg_re) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregg_re\/status\/1548372942370639873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>That tweet read &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post&#8217;s Hunter Biden story?&#8221; and gave the answer &#8220;we don&#8217;t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories&#8221; and called the Hunter Biden story a distraction.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In the two years since that tweet, Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-watch-video-from-laptop-from-hell-shows-hunter-biden-smoking-crack-pipe-naked-while-attending-a-detox-facility-from-laptop-from-hell-shows-hunter-biden-smoking-crack-pipe-naked-wh\">laptop from hell<\/a>&#8221; has been authenticated from multiple outlets, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-york-times-finally-acknowledges-legitimacy-of-nyps-hunter-bidens-laptop-story\">New York Times<\/a>, in a story with <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-hunter-biden-claims-he-did-nothing-wrong-in-ukraine-but-wouldnt-do-it-again\">far ranging<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/hunter-biden-may-face-charges-for-transporting-hookers-across-state-lines\">severe implications<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/revealed-biden-sold-1-million-barrels-of-oil-from-us-strategic-reserves-to-chinese-company-hunter-biden-invested-in\">national security<\/a> of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>All of the information revealed in the past two years was available to establishment news outlets in 2020, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/12\/one-year-later-the-posts-hunter-biden-reporting-is-vindicated-but-still-buried\/\"><em>New York Post<\/em><\/a> existing as an outlier.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Earlier this year, the Biden administration sought to introduce an entire disinformation bureau dubbed the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-jack-posobiec-analyzes-the-demise-of-the-ministry-of-truth\">Ministry of Truth<\/a>&#8221; by critics, but it was shut down to overwhelming public backlash. NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/20\/1100327213\/after-a-discrediting-campaign-dhs-pauses-a-board-created-to-combat-disinformatio\">reported<\/a> the efforts to end the bureau were a &#8220;discrediting campaign&#8221; despite multiple and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/disgraced-former-ministry-of-truth-boss-claims-disinformation-board-tanked-because-of-disinformation\">legitimate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/bidens-new-ministry-of-truth-boss-wrote-a-book-about-being-a-woman-online-and-its-insane\">criticisms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>NPR ran with the Jussie Smollett hoax in 2019 calling it a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/03\/26\/706857658\/prosecutors-drop-all-charges-against-empire-actor-jussie-smollett?utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=npr&#038;utm_term=nprnews&#038;utm_content=20190326\">Whitewash of Judgment<\/a>&#8221; and tweeted out a parrot of Smollett&#8217;s lawyer that read, &#8220;He [Jussie Smollett] was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He [Jussie Smollett] was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement,&#8221; his attorneys said.  All charges were dropped today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1yKXutdig\">https:\/\/t.co\/d1yKXutdig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NPR (@NPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR\/status\/1110583412082069505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In 2021 Jussie Smollett was <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-jussie-smollett-found-guilty\">found guilty<\/a> of perpetrating the hate crime on himself.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In a 2020 piece, NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/27\/906642752\/peaceful-protests-in-kenosha-wis-as-demonstrators-remember-shooting-victims\">described the protests<\/a> in Kenosha, Wisconsin as &#8220;peaceful&#8221; when the events following Jacob Blake were <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/police-involved-shooting-in-kenosha-wisconsin-leads-to-riots-arson-assaults-on-police\">riots<\/a> with significant property damage and multiple assaults. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In that same article NPR described the two people Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed in an act of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty-on-all-charges\">self-defense<\/a> as kind, gentle activists who were &#8220;daily fixtures at the protests against police shootings and racial inequality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The two men Rittenhouse shot were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawofficer.com\/kyle-rittenhouse-criminal-records\/\">career criminals<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/prosecutor-mob-rittenhouse-heroes-rosenbaum\">intended to kill<\/a> the teenager.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>On the same day NPR announced its disinformation team, Tucker Carlson reported about some of the content NPR doesn&#8217;t consider to be disinformation and is reporting on in great detail such as how dinosaurs belong exclusively to the trans community.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson mocks NPR for suggesting dinosaur emojis belong to the trans community. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wJcg7PT1R\">pic.twitter.com\/2wJcg7PT1R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1548390471830974465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Tucker provided excerpts from a recent segment about the &#8220;whole community of gender queer dinosaur enthusiast(s)&#8221; that featured a paleontologist who identifies as transgender, Riley Black \u00a0saying,&#8221;dinosaurs are ours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Many people who are queer, whether they are trans or some other form of genderqueer, or whatever it is, we love dinosaurs.&#8221; Riley continued &#8220;gender queer fans of dinos everywhere felt under attack as TERFs kept dropping the emoji into their feeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>TERFs stands for &#8220;trans-exclusionary radical feminist&#8221; and is considered <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/legal-fellow-suggests-assaulting-a-terf-is-a-ok-on-turkey-day\">a slur<\/a> towards women who acknowledge biological reality.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Host Amory Siverston defended Riley&#8217;s appropriation of dinosaur iconography from biological women and said, &#8220;No matter who you are. 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