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Similarly, NBC Out has been implicated in spreading misinformation, notably regarding the death of Matthew Shepard. Instead of presenting the facts—namely that Shepard was killed in a drug deal gone bad rather than solely due to anti-LGBT hate—the division’s coverage implies that his death was a national hate crime memorialized as such, thus feeding a particular political narrative at the expense of nuanced truth.
The Propaganda Behind the Divisions
The overarching critique is that these divisions were less about honest journalism than about ideological weaponization. They often produced stories that supported a partisan or progressive agenda, sometimes evident through outright oversights or emotional framing that slandered law enforcement or painted broad strokes of victimhood.