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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it is OP. Do I really need to say anything else folks?

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Does the New York Times hold too much clout in the news industry?

Not a troll question. I promise. In fact, I prefer that centrists and progressives answer.

I only ask because they seem to dictate so much of the news we talk about.
Kim Holleman

Kim Holleman, Artist, Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab (2013-present)
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Kim Holleman (born July 23, 1973 in Tampa, Florida) is a mid-career contemporary artist working with the Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab. She is known for her interdisciplinary approach which includes: Sculpture, Utopian Architecture, Public Art, Architectural and Landscape Model making, Installation, Photography, Drawing and Collage. She attended The Cooper Union in New York City and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She also spent time at Bet Za'lel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, Israel as an undergraduate exchange student. Holleman has been located in Bushwick, Brooklyn since 2000, making her an early pioneer in the Bushwick Artist's wave. Holleman continues to mount exhibitions and public art projects in New York.

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The New York Times, BBC, Wikileaks and Pizzagate

What is WikiLeaks?

WikiLeaks publishes large datasets of leaked official materials “involving war, spying and corruption”. To understand the connection to crowdsourcing and crime, it’s best to think of Wikileaks as an online safe, into which huge amounts of information and data are placed all at once, commonly referred to as a data dump.

The most important part about this online “safe” is that nothing can be placed inside of it which has not been verified to be authentic.Although no organization can hope to have a perfect record forever, thus far WikiLeaks has a perfect record in document authentication and resistance to all censorship attempts.

How does this relate to investigative journalism?

Because of Wikileaks’s method of dumping huge piles of information online all at once, it becomes the work of researchers and the public-at-large to mine this information for anything which may or not be of relevance regarding events, illegal or otherwise, “involving war, spying and corruption.”

At the end of 2016, a story began to unfold online in the US referred to as “pizzagate”. The term “pizzagate” specifically refers to code language researchers believe they found in emails Wikileaked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. Researchers believed the language alluded to organized pedophilia in elite US circles.

The New York Times and BBC published contemporary articles alleging the American pedophile scandal was fake.

It was revealed by researchers and other sites that Mark Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of the NY Times -which was denying the evidence of pizzagate- was the very same Mark Thompson, Former Director-General of the BBC, accused of lying to cover up the British Pedophile scandal. Therefore, when The New York Times called “pizzagate” fake, this had the effect of proving to researchers that it was true.

While pizzagate investigations were unfolding online, an event took place in Washington DC on December 5th 2016 that became known as the “pizzagate shooter” incident. A man named Edgar Maddison Welch claimed to be on a mission to “free children” from a DC pizzeria named Comet Ping Pong, connected to the Podesta/Clinton friend group. He apparently walked in, shot a rifle in frustration when he found no children to “free”, and was arrested shortly thereafter.


“Pizzagate Shooter Edgar Maddison Welch” Credit: The New York Times

The New York Times and the BBC’s coverage over time, merged the terms “pizzagate” and “pizzagate shooter” with the term “fake news”.

NY Times pizzagate: “fake news” Nov 21 2016

BBC pizzagate: “fake story” and “conspiracy theory” Dec 2 2016

NY Times pizzagate: “conspiracy theory” with “pizzagate shooter” story Dec 5 2016

NY Times pizzagate: “fake news” with “pizzagate shooter” shooter story Dec 5 2016

NY Times pizzagate: “conspiracy theory” Dec 10 2016

For online researchers, after the Mark Thompson revelation, The New York Times-itself- had become synonymous with “fake news”. Once this intellectual shift occurred, people began openly researching The New York Times stories for evidence of fakery:

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