Who is NBC News’s Ben Collins?
14th January 2023
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about the growing group of so-called “disinformation experts” who use their platforms to lobby for censorship of information they find politically inconvenient or personal objectionable. Within this group are the “disinformation reporters.” They claim to cover how conspiracy theories spread around the internet and translate to real world harm.
Really, these people are left-wing activists who abuse the journalistic entities they work for to push social media companies to remove conservative content from their platforms. For example, they were some of the loudest voices claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation” and rejecting any legitimate discussion about the efficacy of the Covid vaccines or the lockdowns.
“Maybe I’m overgeneralizing from a sample of two or three people but, like, the most prominent ‘misinformation reporters’ are both very partisan and very often spread misinformation,” Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, tweeted this past November.