Wednesday, 27 September 2017

WaPo Messed Up a Key Detail in Major Story on Obama, Facebook, and Russia

Town Hall - Leah Barkoukis:

The Washington Post was forced to correct a major error in its “blockbuster” front-page story Monday titled "Obama sought to prod Facebook on Russia role."
Facebook clarified that when the former president did reach out to the tech giant about political disinformation campaigns on the site during the 2016 election, he never called out Russia specifically, which makes their initial headline completely wrong.
Axios reported that the paper updated its online version of the story with an editor’s note saying, “This story has been updated with an additional response from Facebook.”

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