Please Allow the World's Preeminent Purveyors of Disinformation Lecture You About the Dangers of Disinformation

Not a single one of these people, who say that their errors are not "disinformation" because they admit their errors and prominently correct them, has admitted their errors or prominently corrected them.

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Also, you will not be unduly shocked to learn that NBC Propaganda's "disinformation expert" Ben Collins has refused to correct his own disinformation about the Gaza hospital.

This shouldn't surprise you -- NBC has yet to admit that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.

But let's all listen to their "disinformation expert" as he nominates new people for censorship and deplatforming.

Ben Collins is a reporter for NBC News who specializes in coverage of disinformation and extremism, particularly on social media. His work has earned him many plaudits, including a 2023 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.

Collins is treated as an expert in the burgeoning field of countering the spread of misinformation. Yet his error rate is noteworthy.

Take the Gaza hospital explosion, for example. On Tuesday, reports surfaced that the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza had come under attack, resulting in as many as 500 deaths. The New York Times ran with "Israeli Strikes Kill Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say." Underneath this headline was an image of an obliterated building--readers who squinted would have noticed that this was not the hospital, but a completely different target.

The Times' only source for information about the explosion was the Gaza Health Ministry; mainstream reporting noted that Palestinian authorities laid the blame squarely on an Israeli airstrike. Subsequent intelligence reports from both Israel and the U.S. provide credible evidence that the hospital was most probably struck by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group.

Did Collins soberly wait for these facts to come in? Nope. The award-winning disinformation expert helped circulate the inaccurate claims of the Palestinian authorities. When other voices on social media recommended caution, Collins chimed in to assert that any delay in reporting the horrific casualty numbers represented a profound moral failing. (Casualty estimates have yet to be confirmed.)

In theory, the confusion surrounding the hospital explosion is a great topic for a self-described disinformation reporter....

Keep in mind that Collins represents the journalistic side of a multi-faceted effort to monitor and eliminate purportedly wrong ideas. Disinformation tracking has become an industry unto itself, and aspects of the industry enjoy government funding: A disinformation watchdog that called on advertisers to divest from various non-liberal news sources--including Reason--received funding from the U.S. State Department.

Disinformation reporters often seem interested in sparring only with contrarian people and in defense of mainstream narratives: Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Elon Musk, and others. Collins, for instance, downplayed the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story and denied that there was any effort to censor the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins, even in the wake of ceaseless revelations that various government agencies pressured social media companies to de-platform contrarian speech about precisely these topics.

The Washington Post is also refusing to correct its previous Hamas disinformation.

What's a fake news outlet like the Washington Post supposed to do when they get busted for sticking with a horrific headline about a deadly airstrike that never happened, almost a full day after it was debunked?

A decent paper would retract the story and apologize. I've done just that a number of times over the two decades I've been writing as VodkaPundit. It's embarrassing, it sucks -- but it has to be done. But the Washington Post, as I'm sure readers here already know, is not a decent paper. In fact, readers everywhere must know it because the money-losing progressive propaganda outlet just announced layoffs of another 240 employees.

But to today's point, at 9 p.m. Eastern last night, the Washington Post ran with this:

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What we've known since at least early yesterday is that a Hamas rocket misfired in a parking lot, killing a few unfortunate civilians. But there was no Israeli missile strike, no blown-up hospital, and no 500 dead civilians.

As of this 9 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, WaPo has yet to retract or correct Adam Taylor's story.

Meanwhile, the BBC has taken seven "reporters" off the air for openly supporting terrorism. Of course, 90% of their "reporters" support terrorism; they just didn't tweet too loudly about it. Yet.

The BBC has removed several Middle East reporters from the air amid allegations that they posted support for Hamas in its terrorist attacks on Israel.

BBC News Arabic reporters -- including those reporting out of Egypt and Lebanon -- appeared to back Palestinians or criticize the Jewish state in posts they either tweeted or liked, the Financial Times reported.

One of the reporters liked a message that appeared to describe Hamas terrorists as "freedom fighters," the outlet reported.

"We are urgently investigating this matter," said a rep for the BBC, which is already under fire for refusing to refer to Hamas as terrorists.

"We take allegations of breaches of our editorial and social media guidelines with the utmost seriousness, and if and when we find breaches we will act, including taking disciplinary action."

The FT report said six BBC journalists had been taken off the air, though they have not been formally suspended pending a probe.

However, a separate report in the Wrap put the number at seven, including a senior broadcast journalist and a freelancer.

The alleged social media activity included the liking of a tweeted video of bodies and kidnapped people being loaded onto a vehicle with a caption reading "proud moment" and another saying Israelis "will live as a thief and a usurper," the Wrap reported.

The outlet based it on a report by the watchdog Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, or Camera, which identified the seven reportedly yanked from the air.

They were Mahmoud Sheleib, a senior broadcast journalist, freelancer Aya Hossam, correspondent Sally Nabil, Cairo-based Salma Khattab, Beirut-based religious affairs correspondent Sanaa Khouri, Beirut-based editor Nada Abdelsamad and Amr Fekry, a sports correspondent and pundit at BBC Arabic, according to the report.

The BBC has already faced scrutiny over its position on Hamas from politicians demanding changes to its editorial policy on referring to the terrorists as militants.

Notice they're not suspending the terrorist-supporting white leftists at the BBC, like the stupid useless c-word who declared the hospital bombing must have been an Israeli strike, because this strike killed 500, and Hamas' missiles cannot kill 500. He forgot to mention the source for the "500 killed" claim was... the terrorist organization Hamas.

Take that antisemitic terrorist simp off the air, BBC.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:45 PM

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