A severe escalation of the war on a free internet and free discourse has taken place over the last twelve months…[T]he destruction by Big Tech monopolies of Parler at the behest of Democratic politicians…the banning of the sitting president from social media; and…explicit threats from elected officials in the majority party of legal and regulatory reprisals in the event that tech platforms do not censor more in accordance with their demands.

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But the most severe episode of all was the joint campaign…by the CIA, Big Tech, the liberal wing of the corporate media and the Democratic Party to censor and suppress a series of major reports about…Joe Biden. On October 14 and then October 15, 2020, The New York Post…published two news reports on Joe Biden’s activities…that raised serious questions about his integrity and ethics…The Post said that the documents were obtained from a laptop left by Joe Biden’s son Hunter at a repair shop.

From the start, the evidence of authenticity was overwhelming….Investigations from media outlets found people who had received the emails in real-time and they compared the emails in their possession to the ones in the Post‘s archive, and they matched word-for-word. One of Hunter’s own business associates involved in many of these deals, Tony Bobulinski, confirmed publicly and in interviews that the key emails were genuine…A forensics analyst issued a report concluding the archive had all the earmarks of authenticity…In sum…it was clear early on that all the key metrics demonstrated that these documents were real.

Despite all that, former intelligence officials…led a group of dozens of former spooks in issuing a public statement that disseminated an outright lie…that the laptop was “Russian disinformation.” Note that this phrase contains two separate assertions: 1) the documents came from Russia and 2) they are fake (“disinformation”). The intelligence officials admitted in this letter…Yet…insinuated that everyone should nonetheless believe this:

But the complete lack of evidence for these claims — that even these career CIA liars acknowledged…did not stop the corporate media or Big Tech from repeating this lie over and over, and…using this lie to censor this reporting from the internet. One of the first to spread this lie was the co-queen of Russiagate frauds, Natasha Bertrand…“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” blared her headline…From there, virtually every media outlet…began…spread[ing] the lie over and over that these documents were the by-product of Russian disinformation.

On October 21…The Intercept published a false story…about these materials from former New York Times reporter James Risen. This propaganda assault masquerading as “news” mindlessly laundered the CIA’s lies about the laptop..:

….This week, a group of former intelligence officials issued a letter saying that the Giuliani laptop story has the classic trademarks of Russian disinformation…

…[T]his very same outlet — which I co-founded…to be adversarial, not subservient, to evidence-free assertions…told me that I could not publish the article I had written about the Biden archive because it did not meet their lofty and rigorous editorial standards: the same…standards that led to uncritical endorsement of the CIA’s lies just days earlier. It was that episode…that prompted my resignation…in order to report instead only on free speech platforms such as this one.

But the media disinformation about the Post‘s documents…were not the worst aspect of what happened here. Far worse was the decision by Twitter to prohibit any discussion of this reporting or posting of links to the story…Worse still was the immediate announcement by Facebook…that it would algorithmically suppress the story pending a “fact check”…Despite multiple requests from me and others, Facebook never published the results of this alleged fact-check and still refuse to say whether it ever conducted one. Why? Because the documents they blocked millions of Americans from learning about were clearly true and authentic.

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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…

…[T]here was ample proof from the start that these documents were genuine…Yet the most dispositive proof yet emerged on Tuesday — not from a right-wing news outlet that liberals have been trained to…disbelieve but from one of the most mainstream news institutions in the country.

A young reporter for Politico, Ben Schreckinger, has published a new book entitled “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power.” To his great credit, he spent months investigating the key documents published by The New York Post and found definitive proof that these emails and related documents are indisputably authentic. His own outlet, Politico…summarized Schreckinger’s findings…: the book “finds evidence that some of the purported Hunter Biden laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.”…

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Given what I regard as the unparalleled gravity of what was done here — widespread media deceit toward millions of American voters in the weeks before a presidential election…along with brute censorship of the story…we produced this morning what I regard as the definitive video report of this scandal…

You can watch our video…on my Rumble page or…below.

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(Excerpt from Glenn Greenwald. Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images).