Saturday, January 19, 2019

#FakeNews Buzzfeed lies again

Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier about Trump even though that dossier was unverified, paid for by Hillary Clinton, and based entirely on anonymous Russian sources whose information was often second or third hand so it's not surprising that it's standing by its story that Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress even after Mueller has said that that is not true.

Like so many other stories we've seen in the last 2 years this story about an illegal or evil act by Trump was shown to be false within hours of when it was published.

The clear purpose of these articles isn't to inform the voters but to lie to them.  While the initial story is repeated endlessly, CNN was basically all about the Buzzfeed lie on Friday, the correction is either minimally announced or in this case never even issued.

As a result the casual low information voter just hears about the "crime" and never hears any follow up.  No wonder so many Democrat voters believe in outlandish lies that have been long discredited; the #FakeNews media they listen to make sure to bury the correction where few will see it.

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