twitchy.com by Brett T.
It seems the media — NBC News at least — has finally found a Hunter Biden story it can report on, because it’s been debunked. Both NBC News and MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin are reporting that a “dossier” on Hunter Biden that’s (supposedly) gone viral on the internet appears to be from a fake intelligence firm.
A 64-page document asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden's son and business in China, that was later disseminated by close associates of President Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm." (1/8) #NBCNewsThreads https://t.co/9HcZ6dyhCR
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2020
The document, which went viral on the right-wing internet a month before the purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, was said to be authored by Swiss security analyst Martin Aspen — who doesn't exist, according to an analysis by disinformation researchers. (2/8)
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2020
NBC Exclusive: The Hunter Biden 'dossier' that went viral on right-wing internet sites and was later disseminated by Trump's close associates appears to be from a fake 'intelligence firm'.
The author of the report, 'Martin Aspen', does not exist. https://t.co/XgIbSns9Mm
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 29, 2020
Kyle is hoping you’ll think he’s talking about the laptop. Because barely anyone ever heard about this “dossier”. https://t.co/zEgedYUUCp
— The Partyman (@PartymanRandy) October 30, 2020
Yes, this 64-page document has nothing to do with the laptop or its contents. But because it’s been found to be fake, it’s safe for the media to report on, and hopefully confuse people who’ve never heard a thing about it.
My question is…most in the mainstream never saw this…but the hard drive that the FBI has known about for more than a year has been elaborately ignored…why? Why report on conspiracy like this, when there are legitimate concerns to be reported on? https://t.co/e9LwfF8w0U
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) October 29, 2020
We know why.
This is an attempt to provide cover for the laptop.
— Plausible Deniability (@cheapoldbstd) October 30, 2020
This is Soviet style disinformation. Setup a straw man conspiracy theory that they can knock down to obscure the real evidence.
— Eric Grover @ (@Eric_Grover) October 30, 2020
This is an attempt to discredit the laptop by getting people to share the headline without reading
— Josh (@plzdontdoxmebro) October 30, 2020
As someone tweeted above, now the media can say they covered the Hunter Biden story and it was all a hoax. NBC News is calling this an exclusive, but we wonder how many other mainstream media outlets will pick up this story? It’ll probably be one of Twitter’s trending news stories Friday.
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