Left-Wing Smear Artists Ruined
Ever heard of Media Matters, the character assassination site masquerading as a left-wing media watchdog group?
It’s in big trouble.
Rod Martin has an excellent thread about it on X today.
Media Matters is run by David Brock, author of The Real Anita Hill, an expose on the woman whose accusations against Clarence Thomas created a media frenzy in 1991.
Brock later regretted writing that book, and began his move to the left, at which point he’d engage in character assassination against the right. Here he is on MSNBC:
You may recall the conflict Media Matters had with Elon Musk, which is what led to the disastrous situation it now faces.
It alleged that the platform was so out of control that major brands were seeing their ads appearing alongside Nazi content.
Media Matters pointed to screenshots of such pairings in its report as evidence of a severe and widespread problem on the platform, without disclosing the lengths to which they’d had to go in manipulating the algorithm
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