NYT Suggests It’s ‘Toxic,' 'Misinformation’ to Call for Defunding FBI

Clay Waters
September 29th, 2022 5:53 PM

New York Times technology and regulation reporter Cecilia Kang made the front of the Business section Monday under the headline “Toxic Election Narratives Spread Tentacles on Web.” But Kang wasn’t content with yet another “misinformation” excoriation of the theory of a “stolen election.” She conflated opinions espoused by conservatives under that same “toxic” label, suggesting that…

 

NYT Whines on Trump's Biden Ad: 'Facebook Won’t Pull Ads That Lie'

Clay Waters
October 10th, 2019 8:23 PM
In a sign of the challenges ahead for Trump from social media censors and their journalistic allies as the 2020 campaign heats up, the New York Times is pouting that Facebook won’t censor a Trump campaign ad attacking Joe Biden over his son’s sketchy dealings in Ukraine. Reporter Cecilia Kang fretted that “Facebook Won’t Pull Ads That Lie.” After avoiding it for decades, the Times has embraced…
 

NYT Twitter Hypocrisy: Alex Jones ‘Dehumanizing,' But Sarah Jeong OK?

Clay Waters
August 12th, 2018 10:43 AM
The New York Times hired Sarah Jeong to write about technology as a member of the paper’s editorial board. Hours later came revelations from Jeong’s obsessively anti-white and anti-police ravings on Twitter, and a subsequent defense of Jeong’s hiring from the paper. Yet none of that recent controversy penetrated into “Inside the Struggle at Twitter Over What Warrants a Ban,” regarding the…
 

Federal Court Halts Obama FCC's Abuse of Power, WashPost's Kang Files

Ken Shepherd
January 15th, 2014 12:40 PM
On Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overstepped its legal authority in 2010 when it imposed so-called net neutrality regulations on broadband companies -- cable and fiber-optic Internet providers like Comcast or Verizon FiOS. The FCC had done this despite language in federal law which forbade the regulations under a "common carrier"…
 

Washington Post Off the Mark on FCC Bombshell

Amy Menefee Payne
May 6th, 2010 12:03 PM
Today the chairman of the FCC is announcing the agency will move to regulate the Internet, despite the fact that it doesn't really have the authority. As Americans for Prosperity's Phil Kerpen has explained, the FCC intention - to classify the Internet like an old-fashioned telephone system so it can regulate - requires twisting history. It marks a major policy shift that could affect all…