Topic: WorldNetDaily
There are failures even WorldNetDaily wants to distance itself from, it seems. An Aug. 9 WND article, credited only to "WND Staff," gushed all over the then-upcoming Mike Lindell event promising "irrefutable evidence" that the election was hacked:
Promising "irrefutable" evidence that hackers backed by China switched votes in favor of Joe Biden in the November presidential election, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will open a three-day "cyber symposium" in South Dakota on Tuesday.
The event will be live-streamed beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Lindell's FrankSpeech.com website.
Lindell believes his evidence will be so convincing that it will result in a unanimous Supreme Court ruling to overturn the November election.
"Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, this will be the greatest uniting of our country ever," he told the Washington Times in an interview. "Because this isn't about politics. This is about free and fair elections and about the 2020 [election]. And you’ve got to get that righted."
Lindell said former President Trump has no involvement in the symposium.
The Minnesota entrepreneur has spent about $15 million on election-fraud investigations and the cyber symposium. But the toll on his company has been much higher, with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses as retailers have pulled his products.
He told the Times that nearly 500 people have registered for the symposium, including politicians or their delegates from 45 states.He has offered $5 million to anyone in attendance who can disprove his claims.
Lindell said a number of people came to him in early January saying they had recorded "packet captures" in real time on Election Day. He then hired a team of experts, who spent months validating the material and organizing evidence.
CNN reported last week that election officials in more than a dozen counties that Lindell has claimed were hacking targets said their voting machines are not connected to the internet. They also insisted the results are confirmed by paper ballots, and in some instances official reviews have verified their counts.
'Everyone in the world is going to be curious'
Lindell said his symposium will be "the most seen event in history."
"I believe that because everyone in the world is going to be curious and to see this," he said. "And they're going to be talking, going, 'You got to see this. This is real. The United States was, their election was taken, hacked into by China.'"
Lindell already has produced several documentaries presenting his claims, including "Absolute 9-0," a reference to a unanimous Supreme Court ruling.
But Lindell's event proved to be a total bust -- the evidence proved to be quite refutable, as even Lindell's hand-picked cyber expert showed that the packet captures did not show anything of value, let alone evidence of election fraud. And, no, Lindell did not give him the $5 million.
In the aftermath, an interesting thing happened at WND. Not only did it not cover the failure of Lindell's event to provide any evidence of election fraud, the above article was competely rewritten sometime between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14 to remove most of the Lindell fanboying, change the headline and make it a completely different article under the same URL:
On the second day of his three-day cyber symposium promising evidence that China hacked the 2020 election, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell got a boost from former President Donald Trump.
Trump on Wednesday joined Lindell in chastising Fox News for not covering his event, which began Tuesday morning, the Washington Times reported from the site of the event in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"Fox doesn't understand that it is missing a rating bonanza by not covering the 2020 Election Fraud, the Crime of the Century, which is being exposed throughout many states on a daily basis," Trump said Wednesday in a statement. "They are also doing a disservice to our Country. People have turned them off!"Lindell has stated, however, that Trump has no involvement in the symposium.
He promises, before the event ends Thursday, to present 37 terabytes of "irrefutable" evidence that hackers backed by China switched votes in favor of President Biden.
The event is being livestreamed on Lindell's FrankSpeech.com website.
After Fox News refused to advertise the symposium last month, Lindell pulled ads valued at more than $1 million per week from the network.
On Tuesday, Lindell said it's "disgusting" that Fox hasn't "talked about this election."
"At least we know where CNN and all these terrible outlets come from. At least they attacked, and then we can at least get the word out," he said.
On Wednesday, Lindell asked: "Where's Fox? Today Fox should be livestreaming this."
Lindell believes his evidence will be so convincing that it will result in a unanimous Supreme Court ruling to overturn the November election.
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"Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, this will be the greatest uniting of our country ever," he told the Washington Times in an interview. "Because this isn't about politics. This is about free and fair elections and about the 2020 [election]. And you’ve got to get that righted."
Despite the article being completely rewritten, the article retained the original timestamp, and no notice was given that the article has been substantially changed from the original.
Again, WND did not report the complete failure of Lindell's event. Instead, it puiblished an Aug. 11 article by Bob Unruh on a poll allegedly showing that Lindell as a higher favorabilty rating than "far-left" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It also published an Aug. 12 article from the right-wing Western Journal featuring Lindell's claim that "he was physically assaulted in a South Dakota hotel on Wednesday amid a symposium on alleged fraud and interference in the 2020 presidential election." But it turns out that wasn't true either; Lindell later claimed that he had merely been aggressively poked by someone seeking a selfie.
This is terrible, dishonest journalism by WND. Not only did it refuse to tell readers what actually happened at Lindell's conference, it stealth-edited an article it did promoting it to tone down the promises Lindell made. It appears this was done in part to preserve the issue of its sparsely read Whistleblower magazine issued a couple weeks earlier, which contains numerous false and misleading claims about election fraud.
WND wants you to give it money to produce shoddy, dishonest journalism like this.
