{"id":954576,"date":"2021-11-02T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954576"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:43:39","slug":"washington-post-uncritically-publishes-far-left-orgs-attack-on-breitbart-conservative-media-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-uncritically-publishes-far-left-orgs-attack-on-breitbart-conservative-media-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Uncritically Publishes Far-Left Org&#039;s Attack on Breitbart, Conservative Media, Facebook"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwashington-post-uncritically-publishes-far-left-orgs-attack-on-breitbart-conservative-media-facebook%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=954576&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 class=\"subheading\">The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a far-left British think tank dedicated to pushing internet censorship, has attempted to frame Breitbart News as the leading pusher of \u201cclimate change denial\u201d on Facebook, only to be shot down by Facebook itself over its \u201cflawed\u201d methodology.<\/p>\n<p>The CCDH is tied to Hope Not Hate, an SPLC-like smear factory funded by George Soros. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/11\/02\/bozell-digital-brownshirts-attacking-mrc-backed-china\">received funding<\/a> from the Oak Foundation, a Switzerland-based eco-investment group that contributed $1 million to an initiative to make communist China\u2019s Eurasia-spanning trade network, the Belt and Road initiative, more eco-friendly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The biased conclusions of CCDH were published by the Bezos-owned&nbsp;<em>Washington Post\u2019s <\/em>Cat Zakrzewski, uncritically, without any background on the organization\u2019s far-left bent and ties to an organization supporting China\u2019s bid for global dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond a skeptical comment from Facebook, there is also no attempt to interrogate the report\u2019s methodology, which labels criticism of the Green New Deal as \u201cclimate denial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report also attacks other conservative media for alleged \u201cclimate denial,\u201d including the Media Research Center, Western Journal, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Times,&nbsp;<\/em>the Daily Wire, Newsmax, and Townhall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3650793650794\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Digital brownshirts are attacking conservative organizations for daring to have an honest debate on climate policy. These anti-free speech bigots want to shut down anyone who dares to disagree with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentBozell\/status\/1455539716246364167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Media Research Center president Brent Bozell slammed CCDH as \u201cdigital brownshirts\u201d over the pro-censorship report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese anti-free speech bigots want to shut down anyone who dares to disagree with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest component in a wider effort on the part of leftists inside and outside Facebook to have Breitbart News blacklisted by the social network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18461178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Facebook-protesters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18461178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Facebook-protesters.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook protesters\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook protesters ( Max Whittaker \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The last attempt involved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-leftists-leak-trust-graph-to-discredit-breitbart-but-hide-methodology\/\">selective leaks to the&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-leftists-leak-trust-graph-to-discredit-breitbart-but-hide-methodology\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>from inside the company. It is unclear if the efforts are being coordinated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The CCDH study, shared with the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post,&nbsp;<\/em>alleges that Breitbart News is the most influential of ten publishers on Facebook that publishes \u201cclimate change denial content\u201d \u2014 and then goes on to claim that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2021\/03\/23\/exclusive-marc-morano-lockdowns-are-essentially-model-green-new-deals-planned-recession\/\">writeup of a radio interviewee<\/a> criticizing far-left congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d is \u201cclimate change denial.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13566297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Getty-Images_Win-McNamee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13566297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Getty-Images_Win-McNamee.jpg\" alt=\"AOC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AOC (Getty Images\/Win McNamee)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The CCDH\u2019s methodology is so bad, even Facebook spokesman Andy Stone, a former Democrat party operative, criticized it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Via the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/11\/02\/facebook-climate-change-misinformation-breitbart\/\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>In a statement, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone called the methodology \u201cflawed,\u201d arguing that the study represents just 0.3 percent of the \u201cover 200 million interactions on English public climate change content from Pages and public groups over the same time period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook similarly pushed back on the structure of CCDH\u2019s disinformation dozen report, arguing it was based on \u201cnarrow data\u201d that wasn\u2019t representative of the hundreds of millions of posts that people shared about coronavirus vaccines on Facebook.<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CCDH, a British nonprofit founded in 2018, is increasingly notorious for its campaigns to censor conservative and alternative media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/06\/17\/foreign-interference-uk-govt-linked-group-attempts-ban-conservative-websites-google-ads\/\">Breitbart News has previously reported<\/a>, the organization is linked to the British Labour party, members of the British government, and Hope Not Hate, a British far-left campaigning group backed by George Soros and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/05\/24\/hope-not-hate-identified-in-swedish-military-report-on-left-wing-extremist-violence\/\">tied to violent left-wing extremists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breaking-News-Exposing-Establishment-Corruption\/dp\/1982160748?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling book,&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breaking-News-Exposing-Establishment-Corruption\/dp\/1982160748?tag=breitbart035-20\">Breaking The News:&nbsp;<\/a><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breaking-News-Exposing-Establishment-Corruption\/dp\/1982160748?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Exposing the Establishment Media\u2019s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow describes how CCDH collaborated with the left-wing establishment media to have the Federalist, a prominent conservative publication, removed from Google Ads:<\/p>\n<p>Via&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breaking-News-Exposing-Establishment-Corruption\/dp\/1982160748?tag=breitbart035-20\">Breaking The News<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p>Sometimes NBC\u2019s activism gets a little more overt. In June 2020, NBC News reporter Adele-Momoko Fraser reported that ZeroHedge, a popular financial news blog with a libertarian political bent, and the Federalist, a moderate conservative opinion website that features pro-Trump content, would no longer be able to generate revenue from Google Ads. Fraser worked at the time for something called the \u201cNBC News Verification Center\u201d (even Orwell might have said that name is too on-the-nose).<\/p>\n<p>The most stunning part of this saga wasn\u2019t that a big establishment outlet had exaggerated claims in a negative story about smaller right-of-center outlets; it was that the reporter thanked far-left activists for \u201ccollaborating\u201d on it. Fraser tweeted upon publication of the mostly fake news article, \u201cThanks to @SFFakeNews and @CCDHate for their hard work and collaboration!\u201d @SFFakeNews is the handle for a project called Stop Funding Fake News (ironic!) by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate). Stop Funding Fake News is a card-carrying member of the conspiratorial far left. For example, they\u2019ve suggested that brands like Ford and Microsoft \u201cfund racism.\u201d 94 Stop Funding Fake News, a British advocacy group, smears Breitbart on its website and openly advocates that we should be \u201cdefunded.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/02\/05\/delingpole-first-they-came-for-katie-hopkins\/\">The CCDH was also involved<\/a> in pressuring Twitter to blacklist popular British conservative pundit Katie Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p>Already tied to the British government and its left-wing opposition, the Labour Party, CCDH is also building its influence with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/19\/biden-facebook-isnt-killing-people-just-12-people-on-facebook-are\/\">Joe Biden used a previous CCDH study to accuse Facebook of \u201ckilling people\u201d with \u201cmisinformation,\u201d<\/a> part of a wider effort to force the social network \u2014 which has already censored Donald Trump, a wide variety of conservative influencers, and media outlets \u2014 to further censor more conservative media.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a far-left British think tank dedicated to pushing internet censorship, has attempted to frame Breitbart News as the leading pusher of \u201cclimate change &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954576","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\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}