I've unlocked this article because I believe it's vital to document the historically corrupt behavior of the media, in with the intelligence community, prior to the 2020 election.

They knowingly lied -- over and over -- that the Hunter documents were "Russian disinformation." https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1337045500915232774
The Iraq/WMD falsehoods were far more damaging, but at least they had the excuse they believed it. The Russiagate conspiracies were more sustained, but they could claim confusion.

This was a case of *purposeful* lying: they knew the docs were genuine & didn't come from Russia.
This isn't a story about Hunter Biden. People can debate the significance of his sleaze. It's about the media & the ongoing interference of CIA in US politics.

As soon as these *genuine* emails emerged, they invented a lie -- "Russian disinformation" -- that US media spread.
It really should not matter what your ideology is or election preference. You can't pretend to be worried about "disinformation" and Fake News and lies if you're willing to overlook or cheer that largest corporate media outlets in the US deliberately lying for weeks like this.
The large corporate media outlets that incessantly focus on QAnon & 4Chan and agitate for internet censorship are far more responsible for far more damaging "disinformation" than these obscure citizens they target.

Real disinformation comes from NBC/CNN/NYT/NewYorker/Atlantic.
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