{"id":1773748,"date":"2022-12-13T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773748"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:34:31","slug":"miranda-devine-the-medias-silence-on-the-twitter-files-is-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-the-medias-silence-on-the-twitter-files-is-shameful\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: The Media\u2019s Silence on the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d Is Shameful"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmiranda-devine-the-medias-silence-on-the-twitter-files-is-shameful%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=1773748&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\"   style=\"display:none\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Whatever happened to \u201cAll the news that\u2019s fit to print,\u201d and \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness,\u201d the respective mottos of the two most influential newspapers in the country, the New York Times and the Washington Post?<\/p>\n<p>Every morning, these august organs set the narrative for newsrooms across the country, and yet, time and again, we see them <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/24\/new-york-times-is-publishing-some-news-that-doesnt-fit-the-left-wing-line\/\">ignore stories that don\u2019t suit their own agenda <\/a>as propaganda purveyors for the Democratic Party and the security state.<\/p>\n<p>This has been obvious in their non-coverage of Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter Files, four batches over 10 days so far, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/suppression-of-right-wing-users-exposed-in-latest-twitter-files\/\">revealed a chilling censorship regime at the social media giant<\/a>, which no doubt is replicated across Big Tech, including at Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n<p>We see evidence of what we long suspected, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/jack-dorsey-told-congress-under-oath-twitter-was-not-shadow-banning\/\">Twitter former CEO Jack Dorsey\u2019s lies to Congress<\/a>: Conservatives and medical professionals were silenced, as part of a crackdown on effective dissent against the government. From The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop stories and criticism of the Biden administration\u2019s botched Afghanistan withdrawal to Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s bogus edicts on masks, lockdowns and the origins of COVID, censorship has been the order of the day. That should be a story of interest to journalists at the Times and WaPo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-silence-twitter-files-shameful-005-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/media-silence-twitter-files-shameful-005-copy.jpg\" alt=\"The publications have largely ignored the reports on censorship on Twitter.\" class=\"wp-image-24977869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-silence-twitter-files-shameful-005-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-silence-twitter-files-shameful-005-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-silence-twitter-files-shameful-005-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Liberal news outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have failed to report on the \u201cTwitter Files.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/devine-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/devine-1.jpg\" alt=\"Conservative accounts would often be prevented from trending.\" class=\"wp-image-24977796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/devine-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/devine-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/devine-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The \u201cTwitter Files\u201d revealed how Twitter censored right-wing users. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post composite<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Threat to democracy<\/h2>\n<p>If anything is an existential threat to democracy, it is Big Tech\u2019s assault on free speech, in service to one side of politics and under the instruction of intelligence operatives <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/elon-musk-defends-fbi-but-says-old-twitter-was-democratic-party-activist-machine\/\">determined to rig elections against recalcitrant Republicans<\/a>. In fact, the lead agency tasked with election security, the FBI, is revealed as a prime culprit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>The best description for what the Times and WaPo are doing is \u201ctotschweigetaktik,\u201d a great German word for \u201cdeath by silence,\u201d a tactic to kill ideas or news stories by ignoring them.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from defending Twitter\u2019s 2020 decision to censor The Post, the Times has not covered the revelations of the last 10 days, save a couple of stories smearing Twitter\u2019s freedom-minded new owner, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>He \u201csounds a lot like a Republican \u2014 and, sometimes, a lot like Mr. [Donald] Trump,\u201d the Times opined, delivering the worst possible insult in the eyes of its 6.3 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>While it studiously ignores the Twitter Files, the Times has given ample space to Musk\u2019s critics, including amplifying laughably bogus data from the propagandists at the Anti-Defamation League, of an \u201cunprecedented rise in hate speech\u201d on the platform, promptly scotched by Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cpaper of record\u201d also talked up attempts by still-in-favor Facebook to build a rival platform to Twitter.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2>Catch up on Twitter\u2019s censorship of The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Over at the Washington Post, resident disinformation expert Taylor Lorenz went on TV to falsely claim that Elon Musk had laid off the staff who monitored child sexual exploitation material. The opposite is the case. On taking over Twitter, Musk declared his \u201cpriority #1\u201d was to remove such material and, in two weeks, did more to cleanse Twitter of child abuse content than previous management had done in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The WaPo also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/06\/elon-musks-twitter-reportedly-adds-bedrooms-for-employees\/\">reported that Musk was being investigated by San Francisco authorities<\/a> for creating makeshift bedrooms at Twitter HQ for employees to sleep in, which he denied.<br \/>It was the same ignore-and-smear game across the leftie media-sphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld news\u201d was how The Atlantic dismissed the Twitter Files.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AFP_32MW4L3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AFP_32MW4L3.jpg\" alt=\"The \" Twitter files \/><\/a><figcaption>Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress that the platform did not shadow-ban users. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Wormtongue\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>NBC, CBS and ABC devoted a total of zero minutes to the Twitter Files, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>NBC\u2019s \u201cdisinformation\u201d reporter Ben Collins\u2019 contribution was to tweet a \u201cyawn\u201d emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s a big yawn that so many former FBI and CIA officials were embedded in senior management roles at Twitter and Facebook. And not just the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/06\/elon-musk-fires-twitter-lawyer-james-baker-over-hunter-biden\/\">FBI\u2019s top lawyer and Russiagate quarterback, James Baker<\/a>, who was hired by Twitter five months before the 2020 election; at least a dozen others joined after Trump won the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tGet Miranda&#8217;s latest take\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tSign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a big yawn to see evidence that Twitter became a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and federal government agencies, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/03\/whats-missing-from-the-twitter-files-the-truth-about-the-fbi\/\">the FBI has been coercing social media companies to violate the First Amendment <\/a>and interfere with elections.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, a longtime Democratic voter, at least is getting a crash course in media malfeasance.<br \/>Sunday morning, he threw another cat among the pigeons:<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/11\/elon-musk-calls-for-charges-against-anthony-fauci-in-dig-at-gender-pronouns\/\"> \u201cMy pronouns are Prosecute\/Fauci.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incendiary tweet amassed almost 800,000 likes in the next 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>When YouTuber Viva Frei, aka Canadian lawyer David Freiheit, elaborated on the point \u2014 \u201cFauci lied under oath, engaged in gain of function research in a Chinese lab, jeopardized the entire planet, and arguably contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people\u201d \u2014 Musk replied, \u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His Fauci diss drew immediate condemnation from deep-state characters like former CIA Director John Brennan, a proven liar and confessed Communist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Hunter Biden laptop story was brushed off as misinformation by many major outlet.\" class=\"wp-image-24977885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1540 1540w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1154 1155w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=770 770w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=385 385w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Twitter censored The Post\u2019s article about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop in 2020. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &#038; many contributions to public health,\u201d tweeted Brennan, accusing Musk of \u201cfueling public hate &#038; divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Considering Brennan, along with 50 fellow dishonest former intel officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/11\/mccarthy-vows-to-subpoena-ex-intel-officials-over-hunter-biden-story\/\">signed the lying letter<\/a> that candidate Joe Biden used to get off the hook in the final 2020 presidential debate, falsely claiming Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was Russian disinformation, his imprimatur is not exactly helpful to Fauci the beagle-killer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>But Brennan and the rest of the Dirty 51 will find themselves in front of the new Republican-controlled House soon enough, having to account under oath for their interference in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>This time, you can bet they won\u2019t get away with lying.<\/p>\n<p>Musk also foreshadowed upcoming Twitter Files on Fauci and COVID, the suppression of scientific information and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitter-blacklist-victims-praise-elon-musk-for-revealing-censorship\/\">silencing of eminent doctors such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya<\/a>, architect of the Great Barrington Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow things get spicy,\u201d Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>He describes Twitter as having been \u201cWormtongue to the world,\u201d referring to the sly, snakelike character in \u201cLord of the Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter is both a social media company and a crime scene,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/2022-12-08T090545Z_1549684474_RC2K1Y9TY7LU_RTRMADP_3_EU-ALPHABET-PRIVACY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-08T090545Z_1549684474_RC2K1Y9TY7LU_RTRMADP_3_EU-ALPHABET-PRIVACY.jpg\" alt=\"Google reportedly suppressed mentions of Warnock&#039;s opponent Herschel Walker.\" class=\"wp-image-24977887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/2022-12-08T090545Z_1549684474_RC2K1Y9TY7LU_RTRMADP_3_EU-ALPHABET-PRIVACY.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/2022-12-08T090545Z_1549684474_RC2K1Y9TY7LU_RTRMADP_3_EU-ALPHABET-PRIVACY.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/2022-12-08T090545Z_1549684474_RC2K1Y9TY7LU_RTRMADP_3_EU-ALPHABET-PRIVACY.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/2022-12-08T090545Z_1549684474_RC2K1Y9TY7LU_RTRMADP_3_EU-ALPHABET-PRIVACY.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Google reportedly manipulated search results to elevate Raphael Warnock during his re-election campaign.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Google, too<\/h2>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just Twitter, of course. Musk has shown us a glimpse behind the curtain of a massive psychological warfare operation across Big Tech to control our thoughts and to manipulate the news and views we can see.<\/p>\n<p>Google is probably the worst offender.<\/p>\n<p>As California data scientist Dr Robert Epstein, incidentally a Democrat, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019, Google is a \u201cserious threat to democracy and human autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google makes its $257 billion pot of gold a year from being an intrusive surveillance platform, he says. He has shown how search results are manipulated before elections to favor one side of politics \u2014 Democrats, who, in turn, defend the growing power of Big Tech against legislative restraint, assisted by former US intel officials who lobby for the global firms.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the First Amendment warriors at MRC Free Speech America demonstrated that Google manipulated search results in last week\u2019s Senate runoff in Georgia, to elevate victorious Democrat Raphael Warnock and bury mention of Republican Herschel Walker.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming House GOP has a lot on its plate, but tackling election interference by Big Tech should be a top priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever happened to \u201cAll the news that\u2019s fit to print,\u201d and \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness,\u201d the respective mottos of the two most influential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6876,5665,8250,6881,3819,8560,5796,4253],"class_list":["post-1773748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-devine","tag-files","tag-medias","tag-miranda","tag-report","tag-shameful","tag-silence","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}