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On the one hand, this is shocking because Glenn co-founded the Intercept as a response to the rampant partisan censorship happening at other media outlets.

On the other hand, I had been reading The Intercept regularly since at least 2016 and there was a very noticeable lack of "independent" journalism as the years went by. At some point this year I stopped visiting their website because the worthwhile articles were few and far between, buried in a mountain of partisan rubbish.

If founding your own company isn't enough to avoid censorship, then what is? Is there any hope left for truly independent journalism in this country?

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Who knew that even when you fund a company, if you get qualified people with integrity, they'll stop you from peddling foreign nation misinformation even if you're the boss.

You seem to have insider info that the rest of us are not privy to. What misinformation was he attempting to spread?

The fact that Ukraine has been trying to spread these emails, coincidently around the same time Giuliani happened to be there, which ended up getting the president impeached.

https://www.businessinsider.com/time-hunter-biden-emails-sho...

Your own source contradicts you:

> The two people said they could not confirm whether any of the material presented to them was the same as that which has been recently published in the U.S.

Furthermore, they made no effort to determine the authenticity of the documents, so I find it odd that you assume they must be fake:

> The two people who said they were approached with Hunter Biden’s alleged emails last year did not know whether any of them were real

So you used two anonymous sources to support your erroneous conclusion, yet you don't believe all of the sources who have publicly come forward to say the documents are legitimate?

Very interesting.

In order to be misinformation it has to be false. The emails are inconvenient for one political party, not false.

I don't think the GP was speaking of "misinformation" as an alias for "mistruth", I read it as "disinformation", and that is an excellent method where true facts can cover over the larger reality. This is a case in point. Every minute we talk about liberal bias, people stop talking about other things. Arguably, policy on a pandemic that's killed 210,000 people is more important than whether a candidate's son used his last name as cache in a business deal.

>foreign nation misinformation

Source?

> Source?

There is no source that disputes the authenticity of the Hunter Biden documents. On the contrary, there are many pieces of evidence (such as Secret Service travel logs) that support them.

The liberal media spreads disinformation as often as it condemns it, this is just one example. They will happily bend over backwards and contort themselves into the most bizarre logical positions in order to do so: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1320358217382268934

> "We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren't."

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