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In an attempt to link Donald Trump and multiple online publications to Vladimir Putin and the new liberal buzzword 'fake news', The left-wing Washington Post posted 'fake news' by falsely claiming that multiple sites were working for the Russians to undermine democracy and elect Donald Trump. Turns out many websites are now threatening the Washington Post with legal action due their baseless claims that they are 'fake news' which has forced the WP to retract multiple articles and write an editor's note which discredits the piece they already published to millions of readers.
Editor’s Note: The Washington Post on Nov. 24 published a story on the work of four sets of researchers who have examined what they say are Russian propaganda efforts to undermine American democracy and interests. One of them was PropOrNot, a group that insists on public anonymity, which issued a report identifying more than 200 websites that, in its view, wittingly or unwittingly published or echoed Russian propaganda. A number of those sites have objected to being included on PropOrNot’s list, and some of the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group’s methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so. Since publication of The Post’s story, PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list.
Correction: A previously published version of this story incorrectly stated that Russian information service RT had used the “#CrookedHillary” hastag pushed by then-Republican candidate Donald Trump. In fact, while another Russian information service Sputnik did use this hashtag, RT did not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...16af66098fe_story.html?utm_term=.58f6d013c980
This is not the first time the Washington Post has posted fake news. 5 years ago the Washington Post posted an article claiming Mitt Romney was doing KKK salutes at his rallies to push a "Romney is racist" angle in order to help Barack Obama re-election bid, that also caused a major retraction from the WP who wrote
Editors’ note: This posting contains multiple, serious factual errors that undermine its premise. Mitt Romney is not using “Keep America American,” which was once a KKK slogan, as a catchphrase in stump speeches, as the posting and headline stated. In a YouTube video that the posting said showed Romney using the phrase, Romney actually used a different phrase, “Keep America America.” Further, the video that the blog posting labelled “Mitt Romney 2012 Campaign Ad” is not actually a Romney campaign ad. The video itself states “Mitt Romney does not actually support this ad.” The posting cited accounts of Romney saying “keep America American” at an appearance last week. Independent video from the event shows him saying “Keep America America.” The Post should have contacted the Romney campaign for comment before publication. Finally, we apologize that the posting began by saying “omeone didn’t do his research” when, in fact, we had not done ours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...4/gIQAXD6OuO_blog.html?utm_term=.7c664b58017e
So tell me again, who is the fake news now?
Editor’s Note: The Washington Post on Nov. 24 published a story on the work of four sets of researchers who have examined what they say are Russian propaganda efforts to undermine American democracy and interests. One of them was PropOrNot, a group that insists on public anonymity, which issued a report identifying more than 200 websites that, in its view, wittingly or unwittingly published or echoed Russian propaganda. A number of those sites have objected to being included on PropOrNot’s list, and some of the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group’s methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so. Since publication of The Post’s story, PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list.
Correction: A previously published version of this story incorrectly stated that Russian information service RT had used the “#CrookedHillary” hastag pushed by then-Republican candidate Donald Trump. In fact, while another Russian information service Sputnik did use this hashtag, RT did not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...16af66098fe_story.html?utm_term=.58f6d013c980
This is not the first time the Washington Post has posted fake news. 5 years ago the Washington Post posted an article claiming Mitt Romney was doing KKK salutes at his rallies to push a "Romney is racist" angle in order to help Barack Obama re-election bid, that also caused a major retraction from the WP who wrote
Editors’ note: This posting contains multiple, serious factual errors that undermine its premise. Mitt Romney is not using “Keep America American,” which was once a KKK slogan, as a catchphrase in stump speeches, as the posting and headline stated. In a YouTube video that the posting said showed Romney using the phrase, Romney actually used a different phrase, “Keep America America.” Further, the video that the blog posting labelled “Mitt Romney 2012 Campaign Ad” is not actually a Romney campaign ad. The video itself states “Mitt Romney does not actually support this ad.” The posting cited accounts of Romney saying “keep America American” at an appearance last week. Independent video from the event shows him saying “Keep America America.” The Post should have contacted the Romney campaign for comment before publication. Finally, we apologize that the posting began by saying “omeone didn’t do his research” when, in fact, we had not done ours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...4/gIQAXD6OuO_blog.html?utm_term=.7c664b58017e
So tell me again, who is the fake news now?
