Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, slammed NBC News because it tried to bury Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal. Phony fact-checker PolitiFact tapped into all levels of Pravda to pretend that wasn’t true.
The Facebook fact-checker ran an idiotic May 4 “fact check” headlined: “Elon Musk’s false claim that NBC News covered up Hunter Biden laptop story.” Musk went after NBC News for having a conniption over his recently successful multibillion-dollar bid to purchase Twitter. Musk stated on Twitter May 2 that NBC was the “[s]ame org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people.”
Here was PolitiFact contributing writer Monique Curet’s pathetic reasoning for why Musk was awarded a “False” rating: “NBC News said its lack of in-depth reporting in 2020 on the laptop was due to people in Trump’s circle trying to limit access to the information. That’s not the same as covering up the story.” So NBC did pathetic journalism and PolitiFact blames … Trump. Curet’s actual location is in Japan. Her PolitiFact biography says she resides in Tokyo, which means the fact-checker had to outsource its shoddy business to someone located all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
Curet continued: “Musk’s tweet gives the impression that NBC News had Get all relevant information It was not disclosed. and that’s not accurate.”
Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. These are wonderful people.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 2, 2022
First: Musk never said NBC had “all the relevant information.” Curet inserted her own spin into Musk’s tweet and fact-checked a straw man. In addition, Musk’s insinuation that NBC covered up the story was broad and not limited to the initial 2020 bombshell. NewsBusters owns the receipts proving that NBC did not just cover up the story for over a decade, but also tried to make it appear like a Russian disinformation op.
NewsBusters performed extensive analysis on NBC News’ broadcast attempts to bury the story. NewsBusters’ analysis revealed that NBC spent only 9 minutes, 6 seconds on Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal coverage. It also spent 7 minutes, 3 seconds dismissing it between October 14, 2020 and April 18, 2022.
Even talking heads like NBC Today Hoda and Hoda Kotb, co-hosts of the show, have sworn that they refer to the Hunter Biden story first published by the New York Post as having “possible ties to a Russian disinformation effort aimed at influencing the U.S. election.”
NBC News Washington Chief Correspondent Andrea Mitchell spun that “Experts say the emails cannot be authenticated, Some might have been modified or may not be authentic..” NBC News national security analyst Jeremy Bash even baselessly speculated that “this whole operation looks right out of the Kremlin playbook, hack and dump.”
NBC News took a 261-day hiatus from even mentioning the name “Hunter Biden” and only did so after It New York Times finally authenticated the very emails Mitchell claimed “cannot be authenticated.” In fact, Fox News reported March 18 that between the evening of March 16 after The Times story that verified the emails of that day, March 18, NBC was the only network to overlook the story.
According to a NewsBusters report, NBC’s only mention of April 20 was It Times The revelation about Hunter was made on March 31st, 15 days after the fact. It was broadcast for 22 seconds that day. In addition, when the Daily Mail ran an April 26 exclusive on Hunter’s laptop emails allegedly revealing that his father President Joe Biden had paid his legal fees, NBC ignored the story during its evening broadcasts and its morning broadcasts the following day.
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Geoffrey Dickens, MRC Director for Media Analysis, NewsBusters Associate editor Kyle Drennen and Kevin Tober were part of this report.
This post was last modified on May 5, 2022 12:21 pm
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