NBC's Chief Deplatforming Officer Ben Collins might be out of a job, supposedly to " " " write a book " " "
Which is the "wants to spend more time with his family" of Childless Weirdoes
NBC apparently hired away this nasty geek authoritarian and his equally strange partner Brandy Zadrozny from... noted journalistic powerhouse The Daily Beast, often called the Deadspin of Salon Magazines. Ben Collins' job consists of spreading disinformation -- such as pushing the Hamas lie about the hospital bombing -- while demanding that any right-leaning figure who reports something he doesn't approve of be banned for "disinformation." Collins never retracted his false reporting about the hospital, nor did he apologize. He insisted that he was always right, from a... certain point of view. He claimed he wasn't saying that the Israelis did it -- even though the story he retweeted screamed THE ISRAELIS DID IT -- but was just pointing out the huge casualty figures. When it then emerged that these casualty figures were also false and overstated by 10x, he simply refused to further comment on his disinformation.
Reason:
Collins is not the only journalist who gets things wrong, of course. But there's something extra galling about journalistic errors when they are perpetrated by someone who holds himself out as especially talented at identifying lies. That's the real problem with the army of self-appointed fact-checkers and misinformation watchdogs who police social media with particular focus on alternative content creators--they're frequently no less wrong than anyone else.
[Standard leftwing framing of "disinformation"] totally ignores the fact that some of the most pernicious misstatements about the situation in Gaza were peddled by mainstream journalistic institutions like The New York Times. On social media, people were able to challenge prevailing narratives that the expert class had blindly accepted. For instance, Community Notes--the crowd-sourced, Wikipedia-style fact-checking system on X--is often able to provide useful context about claims that appear on that platform.
Disinformation reporters, on the other hand, are extremely partisan and prone to error. Let's stop pretending that they have some special, magical power to separate the truth from lies.