NY Times, far-left Media Matters ‘strong-arming YouTube’ to silence conservatives, Ben Shapiro says

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro accused The New York Times of moving pinch far-left defense group Media Matters for America successful bid to get anyone who opposed Vice President Kamala Harris silenced connected YouTube, supplying screenshots of a newsman who noted he was moving pinch nan progressive organization.

Media Matters, founded successful 2004 by longtime Clinton state David Brock, is often cited by bequest news organizations arsenic a media watchdog. It has built a estimation for organizing unit campaigns against blimpish voices it opposes, including boycott movements. Shapiro took to social media to uncover that he mightiness beryllium nan group’s adjacent target. 

"If you were wondering what nan bequest media would scheme for its October surprise, wonderment nary longer: it's here. Today, I received nan pursuing matter from a newsman astatine @NYTimes," Shapiro wrote to caption a matter connection he received connected Monday from New York Times newsman Nico Grant. 

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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro accused The New York Times of colluding pinch far-left defense group Media Matters for America successful bid to get anyone who opposed Vice President Kamala Harris silenced connected YouTube.  ((Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images))

"I wanted to springiness you an opportunity to remark for an upcoming article that takes a look astatine really governmental commentators person discussed nan upcoming predetermination connected YouTube. We trust connected study conducted by researchers astatine Media Matters for America," nan Times newsman wrote. 

Grant asked Shapiro to supply a remark by nan extremity of nan time connected Tuesday earlier noting "points we scheme to include."

Media Matters identified "286 YouTube videos betwixt May and August that contained predetermination misinformation, including narratives that person been debunked aliases are not supported pinch reliable evidence," Grant wrote, according to images of nan matter connection posted by Shapiro. 

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"Researchers identified videos posted by you successful those 4 months that incorporate predetermination misinformation. We characteristic a clip of you saying: ‘… Your statement rigged galore of nan voting rules successful beforehand of nan predetermination successful bid to guarantee an bonzer number of mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting,’" Grant continued. "I person a fewer questions." 

Grant past asked Shapiro if he is "a personnel of nan YouTube Partner Programs," if so, "how often does YouTube monetize" his videos, and whether YouTube sent messages, emails aliases notices successful nan past twelvemonth regarding "misinformation" successful his content.  

Shapiro said nan Times is utilizing "research from Media Matters, a extremist Left-wing statement whose sole intent is destroying blimpish media (see below), successful bid to unit YouTube to demonetize and penalize immoderate and each conservatives" 1 week earlier nan statesmanlike election.  

"That's nan full crippled here. Run an article successful America's ‘most trusted newspaper’ that declares beautiful overmuch each awesome blimpish a purveyor of ‘misinformation’ connected YouTube, frankincense strong-arming YouTube into taking action against conservatives," Shaprio wrote. 

"This isn't astir ‘election misinformation.’ Obviously. As beautiful overmuch everyone knows, I person ever acknowledged that Joe Biden won nan 2020 election," he continued to travel images of headlines from FiveThirtyEight and CBS News. "And if it is ‘election misinformation’ to constituent retired nan ‘rigging’ of nan voting rules for predetermination 2020, resulting successful monolithic mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, past nan NYT mightiness want to talk to...the NYT and CBS News, for starters."

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Shapiro added, "And, by nan way, moreover if personification *does* deliberation Joe Biden didn’t triumph nan election, that is still protected reside nether nan First Amendment… But that's nan point: you don't person to purvey ‘misinformation’ to beryllium nan target. You conscionable person to support Trump."

"This is wholly scandalous. In 2020, nan bequest media unopen down dissemination of nan Hunter Biden laptop communicative and laundered nan declare that it was each Russian disinformation, each to get Joe Biden elected," Shaprio wrote. 

Shapiro said nan Times "can’t get distant pinch it" and called nan insubstantial "part of nan Democrat-Media Human Centipede" earlier offering a remark to nan reporter. 

"Here's my comment: kindly, spell f*ck yourself," Shapiro wrote. 

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Media Matters is bankrolled by immoderate of nan biggest Democratic megadonors successful nan country. Critics person slammed Media Matters earning a tax-exempted position contempt being an overtly governmental organization. It was nan taxable of insult successful 2020 erstwhile it received a national Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan between "$1-2 million" from nan Trump management contempt its changeless disapproval of Trump's consequence to nan COVID pandemic, including nan PPP. 

Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.