Conservative College Students Derail ‘Disinformation’ Conference in Chicago By Calling Out the Media’s HypocrisyBy Debra Heine
April 7, 2022
In the past couple of days, two conservative college students have managed to fluster two left-wing panelists at the University of Chicago’s “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference, forcing them to give weak, evasive answers to their incisive questions.
The conference, hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and The Atlantic April 6-8, feature panelists such as CNN host Brian Stelter, Atlantic reporter Ann Applebaum, The Dispatch co-founder Jonah Goldberg, New York Times reporter Ben Smith, and former president Barack Obama. The purpose of the three day event was to discuss “the organized spread of disinformation and strategies to respond to it.”
On Wednesday, college freshman Daniel Schmidt threw a wrench into the proceedings by exposing the hypocrisy of the panelists, including Russia hoaxer Applebaum in a discussion about what to do about “disinformation” in the media.
“In 2020, you wrote, ‘those who live outside the Fox News bubble do not, of course, need to learn any of this stuff about Hunter Biden'” Schmidt began. “A poll later after that found that if voters knew about the content of the laptop, 16 percent of Joe Biden voters would not have voted for him.”
Schmidt appeared to have cited a poll from the Media Research Center.
“Now, of course, we know a few weeks ago, the New York Times confirmed that the content is real,” the student continued. “Do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, and what can we learn from that in ensuring that what we label as disinformation is truly disinformation, and not reality?”
Applebaum responded by stating arrogantly that she found the story “totally irrelevant,” and not worthy of being “a major news story.”
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“Ann Applebaum, who we are supposed to believe is some esteemed and highly intelligent journalist, cannot even answer a basic question posed by me, a college freshman,” Schmidt later tweeted.
On Thursday, another freshman stumped “disinformation” expert Brian Stelter, who was a member of a panel discussing “political polarization, the power of mis- and disinformation, and the reach of algorithms.”
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/07/conservative-college-students-derail-disinformation-conference-in-chicago-by-calling-out-the-medias-hypocrisy/
