How the DHS and Old Twitter Silenced a NYT Reporter’s Accurate Election Report

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Investigative reporter Lee Fang continues exploring the documents that made the Twitter Files possible – including a case where even a New York Times reporter got wrongly “shadow-banned” as a proponent of election misinformation. Fang, who worked with RealClearInvestigations on this latest piece, meant to have it out ahead of today’s congressional hearing, but says it will either way be a part of the House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization which goes into “social media censorship AI, and, free speech.” The NYT reporter at the center of this story is Reid Epstein, and the context is the prolonged vote-counting in a swing state, back in 2020. The state was Wisconsin, and this was the tweet that got Epstein in trouble: “Green Bay’s absentee ballot results are being delayed because one of the vote-counting machines ran out of ink and an elections official had to return to City Hall to get more.” Apparently, November 2020 was not the best time to just report the news. Even if this snippet a mere 8 minutes later got “addressed”: Epstein tweeted again, “Clerk has returned with printer ink!” But such apparently was the zeal not to let the tiniest bit of actual news get in the way of the narrative – even if the news was innocuous enough and true, that Epstein got the attention of the government and Big Tech. And not in a good way. So much…How the DHS and Old Twitter Silenced a NYT Reporter’s Accurate Election Report