The New York Times Runs Interference For A Racist To Manufacture A Fake Scandal About Zohran Mamdani

date linked: 9 July 2025

source: link to article, from techdirt.com

There’s a genre of news story that I actively avoid following the discourse on but end up reading about once Mike Masnick writes on it, and then I get angry with everyone else. This fits nicely in that genre.

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