The liberal Brookings Institution released a new report alleging the biggest purveyors of so-called “misinformation” in podcast form. As luck would have it, the vast majority of offenders came from the right side of the ideological aisle. …
The New York Times serves up this telling nugget.
Conservative podcasters were 11 times as likely as liberal podcasters to share a claim that fact checkers could refute.
That’s an immediate red flag, of course. It’s also a tell, the first of many.
[This is of a piece with the “Global Disinformation Index” attempt to strangle conservative websites, if not as bad. Brookings didn’t create secret blacklists to block advertising, at least as far as we know. Adam Baldwin and I discuss this at length in our next episode of The Amiable Skeptics. That one will drop on Monday. — Ed]
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