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The New York Times is facing backlash after stealth-editing a report on a sexual assault claim against Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden and
deleting a tweet that — unfortunately for the editors trying to sneak the notable edit by readers — featured the passage that was edited.

In the original report, published early Sunday, the Times finally
reported on the credible accusation against Biden by one of his former
Senate staffers, Tara Reade, who says that in 1993 Biden “pinned her to a
wall in a Senate building, reached under her clothing and penetrated her
with his fingers.” The Times reports:

A friend said that Ms. Reade told her the details of the
allegation at the time. Another friend and a brother of Ms.
Reade’s said she told them over the years about a traumatic
sexual incident involving Mr. Biden.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Biden said the allegation was false. In
interviews, several people who worked in the Senate office with
Ms. Reade said they did not recall any talk of such an incident
or similar behavior by Mr. Biden toward her or any women. Two
office interns who worked directly with Ms. Reade said they
were unaware of the allegation or any treatment that troubled
her.

Last year, Ms. Reade and seven other women came forward to
accuse Mr. Biden of kissing, hugging or touching them in ways
that made them feel uncomfortable. Ms. Reade told The Times
then that Mr. Biden had publicly stroked her neck, wrapped his
fingers in her hair and touched her in ways that made her
uncomfortable.

After speaking to Reade and “nearly two dozen people who worked with Mr.
Biden during the early 1990s, including many who worked with Ms. Reade;
and the other seven women who criticized Mr. Biden last year, to discuss
their experiences with him,” the Times concludes that they found “no
pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.” Here’s how the original key
passage read:

No other allegation of sexual assault surfaced in the course of
our reporting, nor did any former Biden staffer corroborate
Reade’s allegation. We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by
Biden, beyond hugs, kisses, and touching that women previously
said made them uncomfortable.

That passage was tweeted out by the Times (see below). But within minutes
of publishing the report, the Times revised the passage, providing no
notice and no explanation for the change in the article. Here’s how the
revised passage now reads:

No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course
of reporting, nor did any former Biden staff members corroborate
any details of Ms. Reade’s allegation. The Times found no pattern
of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.

The portion that suddenly vanished without explanation — “beyond hugs,
kisses, and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable”
— sparked widespread criticism online, particularly after the Times
revised the passage in the report but left the tweet up. The tweet was eventually deleted Sunday.

The only acknowledgement from the Times that they revised the passage
came in a vague tweet noting that one of the tweets on the report (the
one highlighting the passage) had been deleted because it “had some
imprecise language that has been changed in the story.”

Many media figures and Twitter users, and outlets, including Fox News,
Hot Air, and Twitchy, have called out the Times for the stealth edit and
tweet debacle.

Fox News highlights a few responses, including from Jeremy Scahill, co-
founder of The Intercept: “The [New York Times] deleted this tweet and
also did an unacknowledged edit of this out of their story. Brave,”
tweeted Scahill. “What would the correction even say? ‘An earlier version
of this story contained a true statement that the Biden campaign demanded
we remove so we cut it without alerting our readers.’ Something like
that?”

Journalist Glenn Greenwald also weighed in: “Do you think people won’t
notice that liberal institutions and media outlets spent months maligning
Brett Kavanaugh’s defenders as misogynistic rape apologists, only to now
invoke all their arguments to defend Joe Biden [and] demean Tara Reade?
Do you think people are that dumb?”

Bernie Sanders’ national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray also criticized
the Times’ handling of the allegation: “I’m not sure how that line from
the NYT’s long-delayed coverage of Tara Reade’s accusation can sit
alongside reporting that 7 other women have accused Biden of sexual misconduct.”

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