Huge number of journalists with CNN, NBC, Politico, the Washington Post, etc. -- who spent all week claiming that the NY Post story was "Russian disinformation" and that its dissemination was reckless -- caused this obvious hoax to go viral by posting it without checking. https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1319017119187697664

Look at how many people just these two media figures alone -- one from @MSNBC, the other from @POLITICOMag/ @NYMag -- deceived and misled by recklessly spreading disinformation, a hoax, because it advanced their political agenda so they didn't bother to check first. So many others

However much contempt you have for the mainstream press right now, it's insufficient. I don't have words to adequately convey what they're doing.

One more point about what is happening in newsrooms:

If a journalist wants to publish claims that are consistent with the prevailing liberal narrative, no editing is applied. That's why they can lie & say the Burisma emails are "Russian disinformation" with no evidence. But:

If you want to pushback or question or challenge the prevailing liberal narrative in any way, editors will prevent it -- sometimes explicitly on the ground they don't want anything bad about Biden, sometimes with deceitful claims of editorial scrutiny.

It's worse than you think.

Quietly deleted without comment after she spread this to her 10 million followers without doing the slightest checking to see if it was true.