CNN media analyst Brian Stelter offered a terrible tweet on Mark Zuckerberg firing his "fact checkers. They were comparing themselves to....firefighters. In the midst of the L.A. wildfires:
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department." https://t.co/eEcDL8ocr4
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 13, 2025
It came in a story by Donie O'Sullivan, who is sometimes called "Irish Brian Stelter" at the MRC. This was the headline: "Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories". But which "fact checkers" are letting their writers go? This only means Meta no longer needs their service, not that all the fact-checkers are unemployed. This was the crazy line:
“Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department,” said Alan Duke, a former CNN journalist who co-founded the fact-checking outlet Lead Stories, one of dozens of such organizations around the world funded by Meta.
That's wrong, and deeply insensitive. These liberals should stick with Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon comparing them to health inspectors. At least that suggests checking for cockroaches in the kitchen, a much less dangerous pursuit than firefighting in a windstorm.
On Fox News Sunday, Mollie Hemingway offered a blazing take on the Big Tech “fact checking” and censorship issue: “it is interesting that people think that if you want to- if you want to please Democrats, you engage in massive censorship of American speech and debate. And if you want to please Republicans, you embrace free speech. I think that explains a lot about the last election results.”
The media are now crying "disinformation" when anyone seeks to blame Democrats for their preparedness before the Los Angeles wildfires. PBS News Hour’s most biased reporter Laura Barron-Lopez appeared on Washington Week with The Atlantic to blast Trump for blaming Gov. Gavin Newsom for the L.A. wildfires. It’s “disinformation” to blame Democrats. She was upset Trump called him “Newscum” and “lied about Gavin Newsom’s handling of the wildfires. He and Republicans are saying, and his son is saying, that it’s a result of DEI hires across fire departments.”
NBC’s Meet the Press sounded like they were trying to rehab California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s image after the horrible wildfires in Los Angeles. Jacob Soboroff didn’t ask about the impact of left-wing environmental policies in exacerbating fires. Instead: “Are you concerned about problems that may result from the suspension of those environmental regulations and the potential abuse by developers?”
Our media elites love to whine about the “good old days” of the Seventies or Eighties when they had an iron grip on the Narrative. Nobody could really upend the dominant media spin. You could dissent from it, but it dominated.The rise of conservative media and then the rise of social media have led to undermining their grip, and they can't stand it.
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