“'Since at least 2007 to the present, Afrasiabi has also been secretly employed by the Iranian government and paid by Iranian diplomats assigned to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York City (IMUN).  Afrasiabi has been paid approximately $265,000 in checks drawn on the IMUN’s official bank accounts since 2007 and has received health insurance through the IMUN’s employee health benefit plans since at least 2011.'
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The press release said that while employed by the Iranian UN mission, Afrasiabi 'authored articles and opinion pieces espousing the Iranian government’s position.'" More here.

"CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently acknowledged 'the dirty little secret' that the Trump administration 'was pretty tough on the Russians. They armed Ukraine, they armed the Poles. They extended NATO operations and exercises in ways that even the Obama Administration had not done. They maintained the sanctions.'
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In other words, much of the network’s programming since 2016 has been false and misleading. Now they tell us!" notes the Wall Street Journal. See the report here (may require paywall).

#4: Slandering Trump’s Mt. Rushmore speech: "On the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump gave a magnificent speech defending America from the false attacks of Marxist critical race theory that inspired the destructive riots this summer. Legacy media outlets condemned the speech, even spreading outright lies about it. 'Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message,' screams Annie Karni’s headline at the Times. 'Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th,' wrote CNN’s Maeve Reston.

Others told blatant lies about the speech, perhaps hoping that no one would check the text online.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) claimed that Trump 'spent all his time talking about dead traitors,' suggesting he praised the Confederacy. Trump’s speech does not praise one single “traitor” or a member of the Confederacy. Yet The Hill approvingly quoted Duckworth’s lie, and CNN claimed that Trump 'defended Confederate monuments,' even though he did not once mention the 'Confederacy,' Robert E. Lee, or any other Confederate figure." Read the other nine here.

They "often involve the Gray Lady’s self-flagellation over a doozy of a mistake..."

The most recent doozy-of-a-correction involves an award-winning 2018 podcast call "Caliphate," which the Times flogged as an example of the paper's devotion to in-depth reporting and accuracy -- until, after denials and deflections by some of the paper's staff,  the main source for the podcast was exposed as what the Times top editor called a "fabulist." 

"The bizarre episode is important because it helps illustrate what has happened to the Times since it abandoned its standards of fairness and accuracy to pursue a far-left political and cultural agenda. While the ritualistic repentance in this case seems sincere, it is also designed to create the impression that everything else the paper publishes can be trusted. Nonsense," says NY Post columnist and former Times reporter Michael Goodwin, who lists other examples of high-profile but inaccurate reporting by the paper.  Read the story here...

​Worth remembering that criminal investigation of Biden was confirmed before the election; media and social media ignored, denied and suppressed the story...