As Twitchy reported earlier this week, NBC News "dystopia beat" reporter Ben Collins, who "covers disinformation, extremism and the internet," was triggered when mainstream newspapers like the New York Times took the bait and published pieces about Harvard President Claudine Gay's plagiarism scandal. They were just playing right into Christopher Rufo's hands. Collins didn't even call it a plagiarism scandal or "duplicative language" — instead it was "internal politicking" and not newsworthy.

Another "journalist" who doesn't want a legitimate news story published. The media will decide what you should care about.

Reason senior editor Robby Soave noted Collins' tweets about mainstream outlets taking Rufo's right-wing bait:

"… and who disdain other reporters for breaking ranks."

Nate Silver weighed in:

Silver is obviously obsessed with Collins.

Run the place? We have no idea what you do there. As far as we can tell from the NBC News website, you publish a piece two or three times a year.

If he did run the place, though, you wouldn't be hearing "misinformation" like the Harvard plagiarism scandal.

It's weird that Collins' colleagues on the Left seem to think they need to protect Harvard's president even though she's been proven to be a serial plagiarist. Why are progressives so upset about her academic dishonesty being outed? Where's the "misinformation" or "extremism"?

Collins is just upset that Christopher Rufo had a hand in it.