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Subscribers #CancelNYT in Wave of Frustration Over Reporting

October 25, 2019

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The hashtag #CancelNYT has been trending. Subscribers voiced their frustration on the shoddy journalism in outing the whistleblower as a CIA officer.

According to Google Trends this event at the end of September lead to an all-time high for the search term “Cancel NYT”.

Fact check: false. #CancelNYT trended nationwide. Your tweet received thousands of negative replies. By no means were we all “Obama administration folks”. https://t.co/LXqvMNsmEC
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 27, 2019

Wait @nytmes I think you misspelled “law-abiding civil servants” https://t.co/WoEjK3Q6Hq pic.twitter.com/u9DGgnDb7b
— Thomas Rid (@RidT) October 24, 2019

You mean the New York Times makes gross amateur errors that end up in propaganda operations? Like when they said the FBI cleared Trump of Russia ties? Get outta town. https://t.co/dPoOPA3ECM
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) October 23, 2019

The error gave us days of inane coverage and turned Gabbard into some kind of martyr. https://t.co/Wk2YtxYcoQ
— jasoncherkis (@jasoncherkis) October 24, 2019