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| NYT & YouTube collusion spawns fake news ‘bastard child’ – Project Veritas to RT | NYT & YouTube collusion spawns fake news ‘bastard child’ – Project Veritas to RT |
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| Project Veritas Communications Director Stephen Gordon has told RT about an undercover video showing a New York Times employee allegedly admitting to manipulating how the newspaper’s content is released and viewed. | Project Veritas Communications Director Stephen Gordon has told RT about an undercover video showing a New York Times employee allegedly admitting to manipulating how the newspaper’s content is released and viewed. |
| Gordon said that Project Veritas’ newly released video of New York Times audience strategy editor Nick Dudich shouldn’t come as a surprise. | Gordon said that Project Veritas’ newly released video of New York Times audience strategy editor Nick Dudich shouldn’t come as a surprise. |
| “It's not exactly that they're revelations, because I think it’s something we all know happens,” he said. “There's collusion between the social media networks and the major media outlets.” | “It's not exactly that they're revelations, because I think it’s something we all know happens,” he said. “There's collusion between the social media networks and the major media outlets.” |
| “We caught them admitting it. We caught them being candid on undercover video, admitting what most people, most Americans ...strongly suspect of the case anyway, but couldn’t prove. We’ve just proved it,” he said. | |
| According to Gordon, one of the worst deceits the mainstream media do is “gatekeeping.” | |
| “They [media] are stopping or suppressing storylines they don’t want to hear or they don’t want you to hear. So they can bump up their narrative to the top of the list. And most people trust this. We need to break through that.” | |
| The distrust in the media in the US is “very, very high,” Gordon said, adding that people “trust loggers and garbage men” more than the media. | |
| Dudich states in the video that he parked a negative report about Facebook in a spot where he knew would not draw a lot of traffic. | |
| Gordon told RT there is a longstanding connection between the NYT and YouTube. | |
| “When New York Times and YouTube are in bed, the bastard child of that relationship is fake news,” he said. “We've got more to come on the New York Times.” | “When New York Times and YouTube are in bed, the bastard child of that relationship is fake news,” he said. “We've got more to come on the New York Times.” |
| Such kind of manipulation has always been in the media, Gordon says. | |
| “Major internet companies are growing and maturing, becoming almost monopolistic. They’ve got the ability to do a lot more than they used to.” | |
| Project Veritas is still going after fake news, Gordon said when asked about the project’s further steps of protecting the public. | |
| “If I were an executive at NYT, I would be sleeping with one eye open, because who knows what we [will] have next week,” he said. | |
| “We have more cameras, we have more people, we’ve got more videos coming soon.” | |
| The New York Times has responded to the undercover video with a statement on Tuesday. | The New York Times has responded to the undercover video with a statement on Tuesday. |
| “Based on what we’ve seen in the Project Veritas video, it appears that a recent hire in a junior position violated our ethical standards and misrepresented his role,” Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said, the New York Times reported. | “Based on what we’ve seen in the Project Veritas video, it appears that a recent hire in a junior position violated our ethical standards and misrepresented his role,” Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said, the New York Times reported. |
| READ MORE: NYT video editor caught bragging about slanting Trump coverage (VIDEO) | READ MORE: NYT video editor caught bragging about slanting Trump coverage (VIDEO) |
| “In his role at The Times, he was responsible for posting already published video on other platforms and was never involved in the creation or editing of Times videos. We are reviewing the situation now,” Rhoades Ha said. | “In his role at The Times, he was responsible for posting already published video on other platforms and was never involved in the creation or editing of Times videos. We are reviewing the situation now,” Rhoades Ha said. |
| “We will update our readers on the situation when possible,” she added. | “We will update our readers on the situation when possible,” she added. |
| Project Veritas was founded in 2010 by conservative political activist James O'Keefe. | Project Veritas was founded in 2010 by conservative political activist James O'Keefe. |