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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
A report published by NY Times reporter Stuart Thompson on Monday criticized claims from so-called "election deniers" at an invite-only conference held back in August. As Thompson wrote of the event; "Using threadbare evidence, or none at all, the group suggested that a small American election software company, Konnech, 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 United States, according to online accounts from several people at the conference."
In Thompson's words, these attacks on Konnech "demonstrate how far-right election deniers are also giving more attention to new and more secondary companies and groups."
Thompson informs us that such allegations about Konnech are "bogus," citing Konnech themselves dismissing them. He then tries to invoke sympathy by reporting that the firm has suffered consequences as a result of these supposed "conspiracies." We're also told that the firm's CEO Eugene Yu "went into hiding with his family after receiving threatening messages" and cried over the whole ordeal.
And then came Tuesday, where a story was published at the New York Times about a particular software CEO being arrested for allegedly stealing U.S. election worker data and storing it on Chinese servers.
The man in question of Eugene Yu, of course, and the author of the article is none other than Stuart Thompson, who had to break it to his readers that:
The top executive of an elections technology company that has been the focus of attention among election deniers was arrested by Los Angeles County officials in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers, the county said on Tuesday.
Eugene Yu, the founder and chief executive of Konnech, the technology company, was taken into custody on suspicion of theft, the Los Angeles County district attorney, George Gascón, said in a statement.
Eugene Yu, the founder and chief executive of Konnech, the technology company, was taken into custody on suspicion of theft, the Los Angeles County district attorney, George Gascón, said in a statement.
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, of course, but you can't help but laugh at the timing. Either Thompson was attempting a faux-fact check that backfired spectacularly, or was trying to get ahead of the story.
Either way, it doesn't look great for the Times.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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