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October 26, 1999.A problem with cabin pressure led to the deaths of six on a private jet,

including Payne Stewart, “one of golf’s most recognizable figures,” The Times reported.

As the plane ascended to high altitude after leaving Orlando, Fla., authorities believed

the pilot and co-pilot became incapacitated because of the loss of oxygen. All on board

were thought to be unconscious or already dead as the jet, which had been bound for

Dallas, flew on autopilot for over four hours before crashing in a South Dakota field.

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Over the summer, Jack Dorsey, chief exec-

utive of Twitter, made a commitment on

“The Daily.”

Michael Barbaro, the host, asked him

how he might respond to the spread of

false or misleading information on Twitter

ahead of the election. “We won’t hesitate to

take action,” he said. “We should make that

policy as tight as possible.”

Last week, those policies were tested

when The New York Post published a

controversial front-page article about

Hunter Biden. The report, appearing just

three weeks before the election, was based

on material provided by Republican allies

of President Trump. The New York Times,

The Washington Post and The Wall Street

Journal have not been able to independ-

ently verify the authenticity of the evi-

dence cited by The Post.

Twitter and Facebook determined the

report dubious enough that they decided to

limit access to the article on their plat-

forms, to varying degrees. These decisions,

and the ensuing backlash, were newswor-

thy, and our production team thought hard

about how to cover the controversy on the

show. (I’m an editor focused on the show’s

audience engagement.)

“It was a tricky line to walk because we

wanted to talk about how social media

platforms are handling misinformation

without spreading the misinformation

ourselves,” the producer Eric Krupke said.

“Still, we wanted to give listeners all of the

context they needed to understand what

they were seeing on Twitter and other

social media sites.”

Ultimately, we called the tech reporter

Kevin Roose to help us make sense of what

was happening. In the episode, Kevin

briefly mentioned the guidelines he and his

colleagues have developed to evaluate how

The Times should cover political hacks and

leaks. Their process goes by an acronym:

the EMAIL Method. Some listeners asked

for more information about the method, so

Kevin offered to share more about what

the acronym stands for.

EVIDENCE:Reporters and editors should

independently verify the authenticity of

hacked/leaked material.

MOTIVE:Reporters and editors should try

to determine who obtained the material,

how they did so, and why it is being leaked,

and contextualize the hack-and-leak opera-

tion as fully as possible for readers.

ACTIVITY:Reporters and editors should try

to trace the origins of the hacked/leaked

material, and note how (and by whom) the

material is being promoted online.

INTENT:Reporters and editors should be

aware that they are often key targets of

disinformation campaigns, and that those

waging such campaigns often explicitly

seek to bait journalists into covering them

at face value.

LABELS:Reporters and editors should

clearly identify all reporting that stems

from hacked/leaked material.

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Here is an edited excerpt from the Oct. 21

episode. The host Michael Barbaro and the

Times tech reporter Kevin Roose discussed the

media’s reaction to The New York Post article

on Hunter Biden as well as the coverage in

2016 when emails were stolen from the Demo-

cratic National Committee and from John

Podesta, an adviser to Hillary Clinton.

Michael Barbaro I’m curious if all the diligence

from news organizations and the crackdown by

the big social media companies on this New

York Post story, did it work? Did it limit the

reach of this story whose origins we are still

trying to figure out and which are suspicious?

Kevin Roose Yes and no. This story still traveled

very widely. It was among the highest perform-

ing articles on social media that day. So in that

sense, it didn’t stop this story from getting out

and may have drawn more attention to it. But I

think the thing that did change is the kind of

attention that was being paid to this story. And

it represents a real break from 2016 when the

story became all about the emails when we

were late to turn our attention to the bigger

story, which was that Russia was trying to

interfere in our election.

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