It has been revealed that a writer for The New York Times was a principle speaker at a conference convened to push a fake news “experiment” that was set up to destroy the candidacy of a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama.
So, where is the media to attack The New York Times for being part of a left-wing, fake news effort to destroy a GOP political candidate? Why is the Times not being called on the carpet for this blatant bias? Isn’t the paper supposed to be a “news” outlet?
The news comes from left-wing BuzzFeed, of all places.
According to BuzzFeed:
Last week the New York Times revealed that money from tech billionaire Reid Hoffman was used to run a small disinformation “experiment” aimed at helping Democrat Doug Jones win last year’s Alabama special Senate election. That resulted in Facebook suspending five accounts and Hoffman issuing an apology.
But left unmentioned in the Times story was that one of its authors learned about the Alabama campaign when he spoke at an off-the-record meeting organized by the same group who ran the operation. A copy of a confidential report about the Alabama effort, obtained by BuzzFeed News, raises new questions about whether the project was — as the Times said — an “experiment,” or whether it was a straightforward Democratic attempt to replicate the model of the Russian Internet Research Agency.
Scott Shane, a Pulitzer Prize–winning Times national security reporter, was one of a handful of speakers at a meeting held in Washington in early September by American Engagement Technologies, according to an agenda obtained by BuzzFeed News. AET is run by Mikey Dickerson, who previously served in the Obama administration. The organization received $750,000 in funding that originated with Hoffman and spent approximately $100,000 of that on what was dubbed “Project Birmingham.”