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New Yorker caught making grotesque errors in Koch article and refusing to fix them (or understand English).

New Yorker claimed the Koch brothers were behind the Center for American Freedom, that they had preemptively denied it, and their Americans for Prosperity was going to spend some $200 million in the 2012 Presidential campaign. All were false, and they were resistant to correction, claiming they were just plagiarizing Politico or ThinkProgress so the problem was with them.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-04-17

New Yorker claimed the Koch brothers were behind the Center for American Freedom
They then claimed (with no evidence) that the Koch brothers offered a preemptive denied it, when asked about it.
That fails to understand what preemptive means.
New Yorker also had previously claimed that Americans for Prosperity was going to spend some $200 million in the 2012 Presidential campaign - they weren't, said as much, and New Yorker never corrected.
The New Yorker defended the statements by claiming they were just repeating what Politico or ThinkProgress was saying. And they continued to not understand what preemptive means.

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New Yorker
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