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Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) announced its launch of a “disinformation” reporting team ahead of the midterm elections, prompting widespread ridicule online given its history of suppressing information and labeling true stories as fake news.
In a note to newsroom staff, VP and Executive Editor Terence Samuel and SVP of News and Editorial Director Nancy Barnes on Friday highlighted how reporters on their new “disinformation” team have previously covered stories about the “radical wing of the gun rights movement” and “voting rights and election security.”
What are you talking about? You’ve been little other than a disinformation team for many years. https://t.co/VfpgJ57GKO
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 16, 2022
In 2020, NPR – like most liberal media – quickly dismissed the New York Post’s report about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as “disinformation,” even putting out a newsletter telling readers that they “don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”
Here’s NPR’s initial reaction to the Hunter Biden story. https://t.co/LPjHs8Jgth pic.twitter.com/AX0RuQnh0H
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 16, 2022
By the same token, NPR instead thinks that “trans dinosaurs” are more worthy of news coverage:
NPR: don’t you dare use the
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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 16, 2022
NPR’s pattern of suppressing newsworthy stories in favor of elevating trivial woke talking points prompted mockery online following the announcement of its disinformation team.
Perhaps the NPR Disinformation Team will begin its work by examining NPR. https://t.co/kxmr3hme12
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 17, 2022
I thought @NPR was already a disinformation team. https://t.co/yIfOo7TNKe
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) July 17, 2022
So am I. Here it is: almost anything you hear on NPR is disinformation. There, it's done. https://t.co/uHSUEYc7cw
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 16, 2022
Omg that’s great! They can start by addressing the disinformation produced by NPR pic.twitter.com/wI5gZV0ZrI
— Christina Pushaw
(@ChristinaPushaw) July 16, 2022
NPR is already just kind of one big disinformation team already tho https://t.co/kKTISV2OjC
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 16, 2022
This comes just weeks after the Department of Homeland Security shut down its newly-formed Disinformation Governance Board in the face of public condemnation of its leader, disinformation peddler Nina Jankowicz.
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