Once called America's "newspaper of record," the regime-approved New York Times is back with its latest "pie in the face" moment.
On Monday, the left-wing outlet chastised a group of “election deniers” and “conspiracy theorists” for expressing concerns last month that Konnech, a small U.S. software company that handles poll worker data, “had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the U.S.”
“In the ensuing weeks, the conspiracy theory grew as it shot around the internet,” writes Times reporter Stuart Thompson. “To believers, the claims showed how China had gained near complete control of America’s elections.”
“In the ensuing weeks, the conspiracy theory grew as it shot around the internet,” writes Times reporter Stuart Thompson. “To believers, the claims showed how China had gained near complete control of America’s elections.”
True the Vote members stated at an August conference in Phoenix that they "investigated Konnech in early 2021" and "gained access to Konnech's database by guessing the password," downloading personal information on 1.8 million poll workers.
Thompson let his political prejudices drive his work and merely parroted Konnech, which said "none of the accusations were true" and that "all the data for its American customers were stored on servers in the United States and that it had no ties to the Chinese government.”
Thompson let his political prejudices drive his work and merely parroted Konnech, which said "none of the accusations were true" and that "all the data for its American customers were stored on servers in the United States and that it had no ties to the Chinese government.”
Thompson tried to gain sympathy for the company's "founder and CEO, Eugene Yu, an American who moved from China in 1986" Yu "gone into hiding with his family after receiving threatening threats" over the accusations.
The Times reports that Yu said "I've cried" in an email. “Other than the birth of my daughter, I hadn’t cried since kindergarten.”
Konnech's denial was evidently enough for Thompson, who spent several paragraphs blasting "conspiracy theorists" and "far-right election doubters" who "have subjected election officials and commercial corporations that play a big role in elections to ridiculous voting fraud charges."
“[T]he attacks on Konnech show how far-right election doubters are focusing on new and secondary companies and groups,” Thompson said. Their arguments attract a sympathetic online audience, which eventually raises concerns about American elections.
The claims against Konnech appear to be real, which undermines Thompson's story.
Just one day after writing his hit piece on "election deniers," Thompson was forced to report that Yu "was arrested by Los Angeles County officials in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers" and that the office of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón "had found [poll worker] data stored in China."
“The Los Angeles County district attorney's office said in an emailed statement that it had cause to believe that personal information on election workers was ‘criminally mishandled,'” Thompson reported on Tuesday.
Thompson and the New York Times' disregard of Konnech's concerns shows how elitist, leftist media are Democrat Party propagandists. Despite actual concerns with America's elections, such as private money infiltrating local election offices to get out Democrat voters, the corporate press would rather hide their heads in the sand, repeat their grotesque "election denier" smear, and call it a day.
WOW WOW WOWWWWWWWWWWWW.
I have never seen anything age this poorly, this quickly. By NYT's @stuartathompson
Also, could adults stop using the Democrat propaganda term "election denial" to describe people with legitimate challenges to election administration? It's so puerile. pic.twitter.com/YEcevYjhdI
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 5, 2022
The preceding is a summary of an article that originally appeared on THE FEDERALIST.
