Bad Day for the "New McCarthyism"

It was a bad day yesterday for Western propaganda. The New York Times published on its front page a laughable story by William Broad, "Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise." Broad argues that Putin is trying to hijack 5G in the United States by creating hysteria over its possible negative health effects.

So ham-handed and cartoonish is the story, I couldn't help submitting a comment to the newspaper after I returned from lunch:

How can the article twice quote the chief operating officer for New Knowledge, identifying it as "a technology firm that tracks disinformation," without mentioning that New Knowledge created a phony Russian botnet in order to discredit troglodyte GOP candidate Roy Moore during the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama, something The Times covered extensively in December and January? If you're going to quote an expert on disinformation maligning RT, don't you think it would be helpful to your readers to know that the expert's firm was caught manufacturing Russian disinformation?

The comment was not published, and, from what I can tell, neither were any comments mentioning New Knowledge's role in spreading phony Russian disinformation. Rania Khalek made note on Twitter.

Another "analyst" that Broad quotes is Molly McKew, a lobbyist for the discredited former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili.