Once again, Greenwald proves to be one of the only journalists with integrity and, once again, he will be vilified for it. Of course, he is 100% right, this article is a worthless pile of garbage. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1252978171445723136

Wow this sounds bad.

And why wouldn't we trust those anonymous intelligence officials? It's not as if they had ever misled us before!

Well, that's too bad, but again those are very trustworthy people, so let's run with it anyway!

lmao

They just "amplified" them guys. But at least they definitely know that! How? Well, they can't tell you because "sources and methods", but don't worry they do.

Of course. This wouldn't be a good NYT story if Russian trolls didn't make an appearance.

Don't you worry, it's much harder but nothing is impossible for the geniuses who took seriously the Steele dossier, they have definitely figured this out!

Well, if they're "examining it", there must be some truth to it!

And why not? After all they only said they might! Similarly, the authors of that article might be serial killers. Sure, they also might not, but I didn't say they were, only that they might! I'm a serious journalist you see.

Glad to see that the old meme about the Russians "sowing political divisions" or whatever can easily be recycled with China. Of course, Americans couldn't do that shit on their own, being famously united and all.

You mean like the obviously false and totally ridiculous propaganda that Chinese officials, those experts in covert disinformation, openly engaged in on Twitter for weeks? Good we have anonymous intelligence sources to open our eyes about this!

Yes, it's true that, although he is a narcissistic clown, Trump is regularly more candid and more capable of common sense than many "very intelligent people". This should worry you, but not for the reason the NYT thinks!

It's weird that the anonymous US intelligence officials the NYT spoke to didn't have much to say on that issue

The NYT, on the other hand, doesn't seem overly worried about that, since this admission didn't make it into the article until the 27th paragraph...

In other words, we don't have any proof of anything we pretend to reveal in this article, but it's probably true because of stuff everyone already knew!

Good thing the US and other countries in the free world would never do something like that! (More on this when I publish my piece about China and the pandemic.)

I wonder how much she's paid to blabber this kind of nonsense. Can I also get in on that racket?

So you mean they just repeated and exaggerate the claim made by France's health minister?

This is the final paragraph of the piece, it's absolutely amazing. In short, we just wrote 3,000 words or something about how China was behind a huge propaganda campaign in the US based on texts, but we don't actually know anything. Great job NYT!

Yes, I hadn't seen that but it's a very good point, @ewong should be absolutely ashamed of himself. So should his co-author, of course, but him especially in view of this tweet. https://twitter.com/Z011322/status/1253004424894722048

P. S. This isn't the first bullshit story about this pandemic that has been fed to journalists by US intelligence officials. I don't remember if @ggreenwald talked about this other example, but he should! https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1248069783247036416