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January 23, 2025
William Upton
Media

WATCH: Ex-POLITICO Reporters Blast ‘Disinformation’ and ‘Suppression’ of Stories.

Two former POLITICO reporters are blasting their former employer for spreading disinformation and suppressing negative stories about Democratic Party leaders, especially former President Joe Biden. Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri both point to numerous incidents where the corporate news outlet either slow-walked or outright suppressed news stories that were damaging to Biden or members of his family, including investigations into Hunter Biden and his infamous laptop.

“Another great example, when POLITICO did that terrible, ill-fated headline. ’51 intelligence agents—or former intelligence agents—say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation. Or bore the hallmarks of disinformation,'” Caputo recalls, highlighting the most infamous media scandal during the 2020 election. “Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true.”

Palmeri adds that social media giants Facebook and Twitter—armed with false stories by corporate media outlets like POLITICO—subsequently suppressed factual posts about Hunter Biden and the laptop’s contents.

“POLITICO, my former employer—and I knew at the time—didn’t do itself any favors. I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at POLITICO, ‘Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop,'” Caputo says. “The only thing that POLITICO wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”

HUNTER, GUNS, AND TAXES.

Responding to Caputo’s experience, Palmeri recalls her own reporting on Hunter Biden’s illegal possession of a firearm, which ultimately saw him prosecuted by the Department of Justice (DOJ). However, she suspected that despite detailed reporting and a mountain of evidence she was able to uncover, her editors slow-walked the story for three months because it would anger the Biden family and jeopardize Hunter Biden specifically. “I do wonder if it would’ve been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story,” Palmeri tells Caputo.

“Well, since we’re spilling tea about our former employer, I still have a copy of the story on my external hard drive. In 2019, a rival presidential Democratic campaign of Joe Biden’s gave to me the tax lien, the oppo research, the tax lien on Hunter Biden for the period of time that he worked at Burisma,” Caputo responds. “And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, the former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern or natural gas concern which is haunting his father on the campaign trail.”

“That story was killed by the editors,” Caputo states bluntly. “And they gave no explanation for that, either.”

Late last year, Hunter Biden was found guilty on both federal gun and tax evasion charges. Additionally, both the DOJ and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have publicly—in court filings—confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Bidne’s laptop.

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Two former POLITICO reporters are blasting their former employer for spreading disinformation and suppressing negative stories about Democratic Party leaders, especially former President Joe Biden. Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri both point to numerous incidents where the corporate news outlet either slow-walked or outright suppressed news stories that were damaging to Biden or members of his family, including investigations into Hunter Biden and his infamous laptop. show more
August 7, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Health
TECH

Revealed: Biden-Harris DHS Pressured Big Tech to Censor Canadian Freedom Convoy.

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has shown that the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris regime’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to censor accounts supporting Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy.

Emails from February of 2022 between DHS staff reveal that the Disinformation Governance Board was monitoring the Canadian Freedom Convoy protests and was coordinating with social media companies to censor accounts under the guise of stopping “misinformation.”

Convoy protestors shut down several key border points between the U.S. and Canada, including the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit, Michigan, with Windsor, Ontario, and sees the highest amount of trade between the two countries.

The Freedom Convoy protests were largely in response to mandates for vaccines for cross-border truckers but became a general protest against vaccine passports and other COVID-19 restrictions.

Millions of dollars were raised for the convoy, leading to hundreds of Canadians being “debanked” when woke Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act and froze their bank accounts.

The protests coincided with several Canadian provinces dropping various restrictions, including vaccine passports, which had previously banned the unvaccinated from different venues.

Several prominent members of the Freedom Convoy were later charged by the government, including those who took part in protests along the Alberta border at the town of Coutts.

In the Coutts case, prosecutors alleged that the convoy activists plotted to murder police, but all were found not guilty of any such plot.

Image via Wikimedia Commons. 

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A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has shown that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to censor accounts supporting Canadian truckers' Freedom Convoy. show more
July 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024

ICYMI: Karine Jean-Pierre Implies Any Videos Exposing Biden’s Infirmities Are ‘Cheap Fakes.’

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre implied during the press briefing on Tuesday that any video exposing Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline or physical infirmities is a “cheap fake.” Jean-Pierre first used the term “cheap fake” last month, attacking videos exposing Biden’s declining mental state on social media as “disinformation.”

When pressed if she regretted using the term “cheap fakes” to delegitimize criticism of Biden‘s declining cognitive state, the White House Press Secretary doubled down. She accused a “certain part of the media”—meaning independent and conservative-leaning press—of pushing “cheap fakes.”

“Independent, mainstream fact-checkers in the press and misinformation experts have been calling out cheap fakes,” Jean-Pierre claimed, insisting: “at the end of the day, they’re fakes—that’s what they were.”

“Targeting the President, they have said—the reporters and these misinformation experts—said that this President was being targeted, and what we did was echo them. That’s what we did,” Jean-Pierre argued, implying that any video exposing Biden’s cognitive decline is disinformation.

The Caribbean French official has been highly defensive regarding Biden’s mental condition, hanging up on a reporter in March when she was asked about the President’s mental faculties and whether he shows symptoms of dementia.

During last week’s presidential debate, the 81-year-old appeared cognitively impaired. He often contradicted himself and at times offered nonsensical responses to moderator questions. In the aftermath, many Democrats admitted the debate performance was a disaster.

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre implied during the press briefing on Tuesday that any video exposing Joe Biden's cognitive decline or physical infirmities is a "cheap fake." Jean-Pierre first used the term "cheap fake" last month, attacking videos exposing Biden's declining mental state on social media as "disinformation." show more
May 6, 2024
William Upton
Media

EXC: U.S. State Media DELETES Pro-Biden ‘Fact Check’ After Rep. Gaetz Exposes Propaganda in National Pulse Exclusive.

The taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) media outlet has removed a post that spread Biden government disinformation against Representative Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) investigation into the status of U.S. troops stationed in Niger, The National Pulse can reveal.

On April 26, The National Pulse was also first to report on a letter Rep. Gaetz sent to VOA’s acting director, John Lippman, demanding they remove a post that insinuated the Florida Republican’s Niger report was Russian disinformation.

“Our Polygraph.info post concerned the article from BreakThrough News in which you were quoted and not your quote itself. That is why our reporter did not call your office,” acting director Lippman wrote in a letter responding to Gaetz. Despite initially trying to cover for his taxpayer-funded organization’s mistake, Lippman conceded: “In hindsight, we should have. We did not intend the story to be accusatory of you and apologize if you felt that it was.”

“We have removed the post from our website and will be taking corrective action so that our writing is more specific when calling into question the content of published reports,” the VOA acting director continued. He concluded: “We don’t want people who may be quoted in the original articles to be inadvertently tarred with the same brush.”

The post is now simply a blank page that reads, “The story at this URL is undergoing further editing.

While the concession from VOA marks a win for rolling back government agencies and publicly-funded programs that spread Biden regime propaganda, it does fall short of addressing some of Rep. Gaetz‘s specific objections. Lippman does not acknowledge the fact that VOA made claims stating the State Department and Pentagon have been engaged in “continuing talks” with the Niger government, something the Congressman’s investigation found to be false.

Additionally, the letter did not address his outlet’s false denial of poor equipment conditions and lack of troop rotations for American soldiers stationed in the African country.

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The taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) media outlet has removed a post that spread Biden government disinformation against Representative Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) investigation into the status of U.S. troops stationed in Niger, The National Pulse can reveal. show more
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April 26, 2024
William Upton
Exclusive

EXC: Gaetz Uncovers How YOUR Cash is Funding Biden Regime Disinfo.

Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says the taxpayer-funded international news outlet Voice of America (VOA) is promoting disinformation against publicly elected U.S. officials—including himself—through its “fact-checking” site Polygraph.info. In a letter to the Biden government-backed news outlet’s acting director, John Lippman, the Florida Republican details how VOA broke their own “Journalistic Code” in publishing their attack on him.

“The VOA has a clear ‘Journalistic Code,’ a public statement of its alleged principles, which were clearly violated in this case, and I ask you to take down this demonstrably false “fact check” by Polygraph.info,” Rep. Gaetz wrote to Lippman. He continued: “In fact, the sources you do cite in the piece, contrary to your Journalistic Code, clearly do not have firsthand knowledge of the facts on the ground, and worse, you don’t report any disagreement here.”

Last week, Rep. Gaetz published a detailed report on the current status of American troops in the African country of Niger. The Congressman conducted multiple interviews with U.S. active-duty personnel stationed in the county who outlined the deteriorating state of equipment and resources.

“Since the U.S.-trained Nigerien coup leaders took control of the country in mid-2023, there has been a cessation of diplomatic overflights. This has left the Department of Defense unable to execute planned troop rotations, in addition to being unable to deliver critical medical supplies, equipment, and other routine materials,” Gaetz reported in his investigation into the matter.

According to the Congressman, Polygraph.info‘s published “fact check” claims there are “continuing talks” between U.S. and Niger officials, which Gaetz details as categorically false. Additionally, Gaetz informs Lippman that no one from Polygraph.info ever contacted his office regarding the “fact check.”

“At root, I find it amazing that the U.S. government is paying an entity to put out misinformation about U.S. policy and labeling that propaganda outfit as a “fact checking” organization. Do better,” Gaetz concludes. The Congressman asks Lippman to respond by May 1, 2024, and remove the false Polygraph.info “fact check.”

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Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says the taxpayer-funded international news outlet Voice of America (VOA) is promoting disinformation against publicly elected U.S. officials—including himself—through its "fact-checking" site Polygraph.info. In a letter to the Biden government-backed news outlet's acting director, John Lippman, the Florida Republican details how VOA broke their own "Journalistic Code" in publishing their attack on him. show more
April 23, 2024
William Upton
1A

Biden’s Failed Censorship Czar Nina Jankowicz Now Runs a Think-Tank Named After a Venomous Snake.

Nina Jankowicz, the former and brief executive director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Disinformation Governance Board, has a new non-profit group called the American Sunlight Project (ASP). The group aims to combat what it believes is a concerted campaign by conservatives to target and discredit disinformation researchers like Jankowicz. The former DHS employee was the subject of blistering criticism in 2022 over her embrace of pro-Biden government propaganda narratives on social media.

The new organization, led by Jankowicz and Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, has hit the ground running — already accusing several House Republican committee chairmen of using their constitutional subpoena power to silence think tanks and disinformation researchers. “These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism, but with a frightening 21st-century twist,” Jaknowicz and Álvarez-Aranyos wrote in a letter published yesterday, leveling a series of hyperbolic accusations against House Republican leaders.

Despite her concerns about ongoing disinformation operations, Jankowicz participated in at least two such initiatives herself in 2020.

The former DHS employee publicly praised the discredited Steele dossier author, Christopher Steele, on social media. After an appearance by the British spy on the Infotagion podcast, Jankowicz posted to X (formerly Twitter), “Listened to this last night — Chris Steele (yes THAT Chris Steele) provides some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo. Worth a listen.” The alleged disinformation expert also dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop — confirmed by the Department of Justice and FBI as authentic — as “a Russian influence op.”

The American Sunlight Project–whose acronym ASP recalls the name of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region of Africa and the European vipera aspis — has a board comprised of several notable figures — including NeverTrumper Katie Harbath, a former Facebook executive and Republican operative; Ineke Mushovic, who leads a think tank that tracks “threats to democracy” and gay, lesbian, transgender movements; and Benjamin Wittes, the resident Deep State apologist at the Brookings Institute, which was primarily backed by the government of Qatar until 2017.

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Nina Jankowicz, the former and brief executive director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Disinformation Governance Board, has a new non-profit group called the American Sunlight Project (ASP). The group aims to combat what it believes is a concerted campaign by conservatives to target and discredit disinformation researchers like Jankowicz. The former DHS employee was the subject of blistering criticism in 2022 over her embrace of pro-Biden government propaganda narratives on social media. show more
April 19, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Media

Wikipedia Founder Says Website Is Corrupted By NPR’s Katherine Maher, Who May Have Worked With Intel Agencies.

Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR.

“For the ex-CEO of Wikipedia to say that it was somehow a mistake for Wikipedia to be ‘free and open,’ that it led to bad consequences—my jaw is on the floor,” Sanger told the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher F. Rufo. He added: “I can’t say I’m terribly surprised that she thinks it, but I am surprised that she would say it.”

Maher, during her tenure as the head of the Wikimedia Foundation, told the Atlantic Council that she “took a very active approach to disinformation” and “through conversations with government” targeted what she deemed misinformation. Sanger, responding to Maher‘s claim, acknowledged that she likely worked with U.S. intelligence agencies to suppress political dissenters.

‘PROBABLY THE CIA.’

“We know that there is a lot of backchannel communication and I think it has to be the case that the Wikimedia Foundation now, probably governments, probably the CIA, have accounts that they control, in which they actually exert their influence,” Sanger said, continuing: “And it’s fantastic, in a bad way, that she actually comes out against the system for being ‘free and open.'”

He added, regarding the state of Wikipedia: “When she says that she’s worked with government to shut down what they consider ‘misinformation,’ that, in itself, means that it’s no longer free and open.”

Sanger lamented Wikipedia’s ideological capture, telling Rufo: “[It] has not just been taken over by the Left, but that it has been co-opted by and working with the government, is just—that’s not a thing I would’ve imagined happening 20 years ago.”

Concerns regarding Maher’s ideological bias and the Left’s capture of important media institutions were first raised by former NPR editor Uri Berliner. The veteran journalist resigned from the taxpayer-funded media outlet yesterday after being suspended by Maher.

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Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR. show more
March 27, 2024
Election 2024

Biden’s DHS Using Taxpayer-Funded Comic Books to Fight Perceived Election ‘Disinformation.’

The Biden government is deploying taxpayer-funded comic books to combat what it considers ‘disinformation’ ahead of the 2024 presidential election in November. Produced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the comic books are intended to educate voters on how foreign governments try to influence U.S. elections. Backed by CISA’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the government-produced comic books also raise civil liberties concerns as they position the government agency as the final determinant of ‘truth.’

Several lawmakers on Capitol Hill have criticized the DHS program. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) called the comic books another avenue for the government to “trample on the First Amendment” and label any dissident as ‘disinformation.’ Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) joked earlier this year, “D.C. Comics won’t be adding these taxpayer-funded comic books… to their repertoire anytime soon.”

The CISA-produced “Resilience Series” comic books have gone relatively unnoticed by the American Public. On X (formerly Twitter), the CISA page hosting the com books has been linked less than a dozen times. Furthermore, two high-production videos promoting the comic books on YouTube have only pulled 4,000 and 6,000 views.

Former FBI agent Clint Watts — who now works as a contributor to MSNBC — wrote the comic book series along with his co-author, Farid Haque. Haque, the CEO of London-based Erly Stage Studios, previously served as the head of former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s StartUp Britain campaign.

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The Biden government is deploying taxpayer-funded comic books to combat what it considers ‘disinformation’ ahead of the 2024 presidential election in November. Produced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the comic books are intended to educate voters on how foreign governments try to influence U.S. elections. Backed by CISA’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the government-produced comic books also raise civil liberties concerns as they position the government agency as the final determinant of ‘truth.’ show more
March 1, 2024
Media

MSNBC Legal Analyst Says 1st Amendment is U.S.’s Achilles Heel.

The First Amendment is a vulnerability that opens the United States to an onslaught of ‘disinformation,’ MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has argued. Promoting her new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America, McQuade was questioned by Rachel Maddow regarding the susceptibility of the United States to so-called ‘disinformation‘ relative to other nations.

McQuade said the legal right to free speech in the U.S. posed a potential threat to the country’s democracy. “Actually, Rachel, I think we’re more susceptible to it than other countries, and that’s because some of our greatest strengths can also be our Achilles heel,” McQuade said.

The former U.S. Attorney, appointed by Barack Obama, claimed there were nuances when considering free speech and its ‘unintended consequences.‘ She explained that despite the cherished nature of free speech and its importance in democracy, the reflexive reaction to any attempts at regulation is dismissed as censorship, thereby contributing to America’s vulnerability. McQuade also referenced the Supreme Court’s stance that permits limitations on fundamental rights, including free speech, under specific conditions deemed important by the government.

Furthermore, McQuade voiced her belief that the U.S. needs more constructive conversations and practical solutions to combat the issue of ‘disinformation.’ She expressed concern over the rampant use of political labels and the retreat to positional ‘extremes’ when discussing censorship and limiting First Amendment rights. In addition to her media roles, McQuade is a law professor at the University of Michigan.

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The First Amendment is a vulnerability that opens the United States to an onslaught of 'disinformation,' MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has argued. Promoting her new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America, McQuade was questioned by Rachel Maddow regarding the susceptibility of the United States to so-called 'disinformation' relative to other nations. show more
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February 13, 2024
Ed Kozak
World

Germany Wants to Track ‘Right-Wing’ Financing.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced Tuesday plans to trace individuals who donate to so-called “right-wing extremists” and establish an “early recognition system” to detect so-called “disinformation campaigns.”

The new measures include a law to allow the monitoring of financing to so-called extremist groups, a ban on so-called “far-right extremists” from owning weapons, a general ban on semi-automatic weapons, easier dismissal of public servants who are “far-right,” and a detection system for alleged bots that “attempt to manipulate the free formation of opinions.”

“We want to use all the instruments of the rule of law to protect our democracy,” Faeser said in an official statement. “We want to break up extreme right networks and take away their income streams and their weapons,” she said, adding: “No one who donates to a right-wing extremist organization should be able to rely on remaining undiscovered.”

Faeser further claimed that: “German right-wing extremists and foreign autocrats have one thing in common: They want to stoke rage and divide, above all through disinformation.”

The announcement comes as the German nationalist populist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) continues to surge in the polls. Last year, it was reported that a third of Europeans are voting for populist parties, and right-wing populist parties are predicted to sweep the 2024 European elections.

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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced Tuesday plans to trace individuals who donate to so-called "right-wing extremists" and establish an "early recognition system" to detect so-called "disinformation campaigns." show more