“This is the biggest journalism scam in a very long time”. That is how Elon Musk describes the latest Twitter Files expose by independent journalist Matt Taibbi. And although the category of biggest journalism scam is extremely competitive these days, Elon has a point.
In terms of depth, width, sheer number of fake news articles, number of people being targeted and total lack of any journalistic scrutiny or oversight, the latest scandal no doubt ranks as one of the worst.
A group known as Hamilton 68 put out fake stories which it linked to alleged Russian social media accounts which the media then spread far and wide without asking any questions. It now turns out that there were no Russian bots or trolls. It was all made up….