Glenn Greenwald also chose to make the fake Giuliani/Hunter Biden laptop story the hill on which he wished to die upon, related to his resignation from the Intercept, so whatever credibility he had remaining has long since departed.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=greenwald...
The same kind of people now openly railing against GG are the same kind of people who will do everything they can to not acknowledge Ray McGovern because his professional and personal past make him a harder target on the topic. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me to see plenty of them try the same charater assasination on him, but it's an obvious marker of complete rejection of truth in favor of tribalisms.
Disgusting seeing so many turn on GG et al so quickly. Ya'll should be ashamed of yourselves.
He believed a story with little evidence and his journalistic integrity became questionable.
In his own words:
“I don’t think that the emails — so far — reveal a huge scandal. They so far just establish standard sleaze and DC corruption. The huge scandal to me is the blatant rank-closing and cone of silence — a prohibition — erected by journalists around this story to defend Biden,”
“Is there a single journalist willing to say with a straight face they believe the emails relating to the Bidens are either fabricated or otherwise fraudulently altered, but the Bidens just aren’t saying so?,”
“When you report a huge archive, there’s no way to prove the negative that none of it is altered. You investigate & confirm as much as you can, then use your journalistic judgment. The only way you get confirmation is when the subjects of the reporting don’t deny the authenticity,”
“You know the subjects of the reporting will immediately claim they’re fake if the are. Of course they will: that would kill the reporting!”
“There’s a reason the Bidens aren’t claiming they’re fake,”
He thought the laptop story was true and barked about it for days. He had no evidence to think it was true, it just was to him.
His substack work was after he humiliated himself on Twitter and is largely trying to justify how stupid he was.
Downvote all you want Biden lackies, it doesnt change the uncomfortable facts!
See now I know this is about political identity to you and not about the truth.
Your response here indicates you were never trying to have a conversation at all.
Projection at its most obvious.
> While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000?re...
What was fake about it?
AFAIK no factual claim has been refuted and some have been robustly proved (e.g. the gmail sent emails that have been published pass DKIM validation).
If you want to say the timing of it was a transparent attempt at political manipulation, I'd fully agree.
> So as I blogged before, the emails contained DKIM information, which the original reporters could and should have verified. So I eventually got a copy of the email and run DKIM verification on it. It passed:
https://twitter.com/erratarob/status/1322007153415200768
I think he's pretty active (and well-respected) on HN.
That is, I do agree with you and your technical analysis, but don't see the point of nitpicking his Twitter reporting. I think if you're on Twitter, you already know that you're not getting every little detail of a story.
You can also download all the uncensored photos on many leak websites. The photos are clearly Hunter Biden in many sexually explicit positions (although none of them appear to be underage as was suggested by some).
I think there is a prima fascia case against Hunter for his ties to Burisma and his appointment being purely for political clout and a power move; a move that should be investigated for possible direct security risks to the American government and the American people.