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How An Activist Journalist Smeared a Wounded Marine Veteran

Tim Pool Daily News

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Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

An Activist Journalist with the New Yorker falsely accused a wounded marine veteran of having an iron cross tattoo. This led to a wave of attacks on social media and ultimately ICE, where the man now works, had to issue a statement demanding an apology.The woman, Talia Lavin, made her twitter private following the incident and the New Yorker apologized for the error.This woman is employed as a FACT CHECKER at the New Yorker and she couldn't even fact check the tweet before sending it out and causing real harm to an innocent man.SUPPORT JOURNALISM. Become a patron athttp://www.patreon.com/TimcastSupport the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

US immigration and customs enforcement, also known as ICE, put out a promotional tweet.

0:04.9

They showed a man who had lost his legs in Afghanistan, serving as a Marine,

0:08.7

who is now fighting child exploitation. Well, a fact checker from the New Yorker decided that the

0:14.5

cross on his arm, a tattoo, even though you can't see the whole thing, must have been a Nazi iron cross,

0:20.5

even though the iron cross isn't necessarily a Nazi symbol. This led to a ton of people

0:25.4

attacking this individual, people were doxing him, they are pulling up photos of him and claiming

0:29.8

that ICE actually was promoting an image of a Nazi. This story is the perfect example of guilty

0:36.0

until proven innocent. It's also the perfect example of just why our media institutions are so

0:42.0

broken from the inside. The person who made this false claim is a fact checker with the New Yorker.

0:48.7

So first, let's talk about what exactly happened to this man who is injured in Afghanistan and is now

0:54.4

fighting child exploitation. Why people thought he was a Nazi and how this is showing us just how bad

1:00.6

media really is. Before we get started, I have a huge announcement. I now have merchandise

1:07.3

available through T-spring. There should be a button in the top right corner you can click.

1:10.8

The death of censorship actually has sold the best so far, something I designed. And it is the

1:15.8

Illuminati pyramid being toppled over. So if you want to support my work, here is another way

1:21.2

on the 25th of May we saw this tweet from ICE. Learn more about hero, child rescue core and

1:26.5

program for wounded injured and ill special ops forces to receive training and high tech skills,

1:32.0

computer forensics and law enforcement skills to assist federal agents in the fight against

1:36.9

online child sexual exploitation. And in the photo it says, ICE Hero Core giving veterans a

1:42.4

second chance to be a hero. Following this, a fact checker from the New Yorker named Talia Lavin

1:47.7

tweeted out something to the effect that his elbow tattoo was an iron cross. She did delete the

1:53.1

tweet however, but she then tweeted this. Some vets said this ICE agents tattoo looked more like a

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