Independent Media Fact-checks New York Times

Over 10 million people pay to read the New York Times, a 173-year-old daily newspaper that more than 636 million people visited online in January.

However, much smaller independent media outlets such as @TheGrayzoneNews, @Intifada and @Mondoweiss reported that a 28 December Times article about militant group H*m*s using sexual violence against Israelis on 7 October had not been based on evidence. The family of one of the Israelis who died that day said Times reporters pressured relatives to speak and that they had no evidence that their relative was r*ped.

Further, the outlets reported one of the article’s co-authors, Anat Schwartz, is a former Israeli military officer with no journalism experience. The Intercept reported on 28 February that a Times editor said, ‘We remain confident in the accuracy of our reporting and stand by the team’s investigation.’

In this clip, @AlJazeera mentions that the alternative media outlets debunked the Times’ article. Meanwhile, Grayzone founder @MaxBlumenthal told @jimmy_dore that The Intercept and Democracy Now failed to give due credit to the respective outlets.