The 18-Month Gaslight: How Media Giants Rigged Your Reality
The New York Times and Washington Post spent over a year branding a verified laptop story as 'Russian propaganda' to protect a presidential candidate. Once the election was safely over, they quietly admitted it was real, proving they value regime stability over your right to the truth.
The media and intelligence agencies knowingly lied about 'Russian interference' to bury a real story and manipulate the 2020 election outcome.
The FBI possessed Hunter Biden's laptop since December 2019. This means the federal government knew the 'Russian disinformation' narrative was a lie the entire time it was being used to censor your news feed. While the New York Post was being locked out of its social media accounts for reporting the truth in October 2020, the gatekeepers at the New York Times and Washington Post were busy laundering a letter from 51 former intelligence officials—led by career liars like John Brennan and James Clapper—to provide 'expert' cover for a total media blackout.
This wasn't a mistake; it was a coordinated influence operation. For 512 days, the legacy media used the 'unverified' label as a shield to hide documented evidence of foreign business dealings. They didn't lack the resources to verify the drive; they lacked the permission from their corporate boards and political masters. The Washington Post waited until March 30, 2022, to finally publish forensic proof of the laptop's authenticity—conveniently long after the votes were counted and the political risk had vanished.
Follow the money and you'll find a 'Paper of Record' that functions as a PR firm for the establishment. Legacy media conglomerates benefit from the stability of candidates who protect the military-industrial complex and maintain the corporate status quo. Reporting on the laptop threatened the revenue-generating machine of the DNC-Media-Complex, so they chose to bury the facts. The 'Twitter Files' later confirmed that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech giants, priming them to censor 'hack-and-leak' operations they knew were coming, effectively weaponizing the state against a domestic news story.
When the media chooses which facts you're allowed to see based on who they want to win an election, you no longer live in a free society—you live in an information prison. The NYT and WaPo didn't 'get it wrong'; they made a calculated decision to manage the narrative. They treated the American public like children who couldn't be trusted with the truth, proving that their primary loyalty is to the regime, not the reader.
You should be enraged because this proves the 'check and balance' of the fourth estate is dead. It has been replaced by a digital iron curtain where the FBI, Big Tech, and Corporate Media collaborate to decide what is 'real.' If they can disappear a physical piece of evidence to swing an election, imagine what else they are lying to you about right now.
Summary
The New York Times and Washington Post spent over a year branding a verified laptop story as 'Russian propaganda' to protect a presidential candidate. Once the election was safely over, they quietly admitted it was real, proving they value regime stability over your right to the truth.
⚡ Key Facts
- The FBI had the physical laptop in December 2019, nearly a year before the 'Russian disinformation' lie was launched.
- 51 former intelligence officials, including John Brennan and James Clapper, signed a letter with zero evidence to discredit the story.
- The New York Times and Washington Post waited 18 months to 'verify' the emails, only doing so after the election was settled.
- Internal 'Twitter Files' documents revealed the FBI primed tech companies to censor the story before it even broke.
- Major social media platforms blocked the sharing of the story and locked the New York Post's account based on legacy media cues.
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