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It all depends on what you define as "fake news" doesn't it? How about in that same time frame "51 Intelligence Experts Say Hunter's Laptop is Russian Disinform

It all depends on what you define as "fake news" doesn't it? How about in that same time frame "51 Intelligence Experts Say Hunter's Laptop is Russian Disinformation" or "Trump will release an untested vaccine to boost his election chances," were those factored into the study? I kinda suspect they weren't.

pessimizer 2y ago
They weren't, but the laptop having nothing to do with the Russians would have been counted as fake news because it was published mostly in outlets that the company Newsguard declared as fake news outlets (at least up to 2020.) > NewsGuard is based in New York City. Its advisors include former officials such as Tom Ridge, former homeland security secretary, Richard Stengel, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, Michael Hayden, former CIA director general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO chief, as well as Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard
- h2odragon 2y ago
  Heavy funding from the government, too: https://www.racket.news/p/newsguard-case-highlights-the-pentagons https://www.racket.news/p/newsguard-case-highlights-the-pent...
- burningChrome 2y ago
  Ironic the media spent years debunking his laptop as disinformation and now its being used in his gun case as evidence of his crimes. So much for having “all the hallmarks” of Russian disinformation. So much for “it could be that I was hacked.” Almost four full years after Big Tech suppressed The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s abandoned “laptop from hell” with its evidence of influence-peddling, drug use, and other lurid activity, the device will take center stage in the first son’s federal trial on gun charges next month. Special counsel David Weiss’ team made clear that it intends to use data from the notorious hard drive as evidence against the now-54-year-old. https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-which-the-post-exposed-and-he-denied-will-be-used-as-evidence-in-his-gun-case/ https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/hunter-bidens-infamous...

pessimizer 2y ago

They weren't, but the laptop having nothing to do with the Russians would have been counted as fake news because it was published mostly in outlets that the company Newsguard declared as fake news outlets (at least up to 2020.) > NewsGuard is based in New York City. Its advisors include former officials such as Tom Ridge, former homeland security secretary, Richard Stengel, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, Michael Hayden, former CIA director general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO chief, as well as Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard

h2odragon 2y ago
Heavy funding from the government, too: https://www.racket.news/p/newsguard-case-highlights-the-pentagons https://www.racket.news/p/newsguard-case-highlights-the-pent...
burningChrome 2y ago
Ironic the media spent years debunking his laptop as disinformation and now its being used in his gun case as evidence of his crimes. So much for having “all the hallmarks” of Russian disinformation. So much for “it could be that I was hacked.” Almost four full years after Big Tech suppressed The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s abandoned “laptop from hell” with its evidence of influence-peddling, drug use, and other lurid activity, the device will take center stage in the first son’s federal trial on gun charges next month. Special counsel David Weiss’ team made clear that it intends to use data from the notorious hard drive as evidence against the now-54-year-old. https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-which-the-post-exposed-and-he-denied-will-be-used-as-evidence-in-his-gun-case/ https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/hunter-bidens-infamous...