Irony alert: the taxpayer-funded, far-left propaganda organ known as National Public Radio (NPR) has announced it is launching a “disinformation” reporting team, sparking widespread mockery online.
As a glaring example of its own checkered history of suppressing information and/or disseminating disinformation: in October 2020, NPR refused to report on the story of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, which NPR tried to justify by declaring, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Like other leftist media outlets, NPR considered the Hunter Biden laptop story “disinformation” — though it has proven to be authentic, and the attempts to dismiss its legitimacy were themselves the only “disinformation.”
Another example: after the 2016 election, NPR’s ombudsman suggested limiting live interviews of conservatives, after one conservative author was interviewed on Morning Edition and challenged NPR’s reporting, as well as its focus on racial content in programming.
NPR’s new “disinformation” team comes just weeks after the Biden administration’s attempt to set up a “disinformation” panel within the Department of Homeland Security collapsed amid public outrage over its Orwellian nature.