NBC News 'Disinformation Reporter' Ben Collins Tells on Himself in Defense of Harvard's Claudine Gay

As controversy continues to swirl around Harvard's woke president Claudine Gay stemming from plagiarism allegations that even CNN is calling out, it has been very revealing not to mention instructive to see who has been defending Gay as well as the type of defenses they've been putting up on her behalf.

For instance, retired Harvard professor Charles Fried indicated he'd be willing to take the well-documented claims against Claudine Gay seriously if they came from someone other than those dastardly right-wingers:

Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried: I would trust the plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay but refuse to because they come from conservatives.

He calls this an attack on institutions while demonstrating why their critics are justified. pic.twitter.com/S3kKGkXizW
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) December 21, 2023

NBC News "reporter" Ben Collins, who we've been reliably informed is an expert in disinformation, similarly told on himself when he went after prominent Critical Race Theory critic Christopher Rufo, suggesting that the problem isn't Claudine Gay but mainstream media outlets that (rightfully) treat Rufo - who was the first to research and document the accusations - as a credible source to be taken seriously:

If you're a mainstream outlet and you're being gamed this easily by a guy who is laying out his playbook days or months in advance, maybe the problem isn't the right-wing grifters.

Maybe the problem is you. pic.twitter.com/R35wFR0EOG
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 21, 2023

After yours truly responded to Collins by telling him I was so sorry this was happening to him, I was blocked. Again.

Others also pointed to the bizarre nature of Collins' diatribe, pointing out that a misinfo/disinfo reporter who took their job seriously would in fact welcome the investigation into the allegations against Gay, not use the situation as an opportunity to go on a bash fest against conservatives:

It's just kinda crazy to me how obviously and self evidently partisan some of these "misinformation reporters" are, in ways that cause tangible harm to journalism. https://t.co/cZcJ7qYfDS
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 22, 2023

Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald was on the same page:

The entire "disinformation industry" was manufactured after the 2016 election -- "disinformation expert" is a fake credential -- and its only purpose was to justify censorship of dissent from neoliberal orthodoxies by masquerading such partisan censorship as neutral science...

Yep, and Collins, as we've reported previously here, has been a case study in just how that plays out both in his "reporting" and social media declarations.

As I've noted before, Collins’ left-wing bias is so obvious and out there that his employer felt they had no choice but to temporarily suspend him from providing on-air commentary about Twitter CEO Elon Musk for several weeks in December 2022 after Collins went overboard in a series of tweets about Musk earlier that month.

With all of that in mind, it should surprise absolutely no one reading this that Collins was given "special recognition for incisive reporting from the trenches of the information war" in June by the Fourth Estate for being, in their words, "inspiring, brilliant, and brave" when it came to his reporting on the "dark web," which just further proves the point that no bad deed that goes against everything journalists are supposed to stand for goes unrewarded in Media World.