Someone has developed a new app called “Block The New York Times,” which allows Twitter users to block “New York Times-linked accounts” to help “control the flood of corporate disinformation online.”
The link takes you to a webpage that mocks the NYT webpage with the headline, “NYT BLOCKED.”
The subheadlines read, “Blocks take the lead in fight against disinformation” and “New app blocks 800 NYT reporters in seconds.”
You can block all of them with one click for only $0!
The description of the project is the lead story, “The Times in Crisis: ‘A Juicy Collection of Great Narratives.”
“Long marketed as the ‘paper of record,’ the New York Times Company now faces an economic and reputational reckoning,” it says. “Employees are revolting, traffic is plummeting, colleagues are scathing, and readers are blocking.”
Each link leads to a story about the times the paper of record got something wrong. These include the fake story that elevated its Caliphate podcast, the 1619 Project, and how it helped convict an innocent man in 2000.
The website also reminds people of stories they might have forgotten:
I had no idea a bureau chief covered up Holodomor, the genocide of millions of Ukrainians:
“Times Wins Pulitzer for Denying Genocide: Called ‘Stalin’s Apologist’ for covering up the mass starvation of five million Ukrainians, NYT Bureau Chief Walter Duranty once quipped that you ‘can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.'”
One person noted that you have to give the app a lot of personal information. But the social media person explained Twitter makes them do this, but you can uninstall the app after the block.
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