Buzzfeed's latest effort - falsely claiming Trump ordered his lawyer to lie to Congress - doesn't even rate as the worst.
Read the whole thing here, but the headlines alone paint the picture of a US media now grossly corrupted with malice and bias.
Greenwald explains:
His top 10 fake news stories, from bad to worse:
10. RT Hacked Into and Took Over C-SPAN (Fortune)
9. Russian Hackers Invaded the U.S. Electricity Grid to Deny Vermonters Heat During the Winter (WashPost)
8. A New, Deranged, Anonymous Group Declares Mainstream Political Sites on the Left and Right to be Russian Propaganda Outlets and WashPost Touts its Report to Claim Massive Kremlin Infiltration of the Internet (WashPost)
7. Trump Aide Anthony Scaramucci is Involved in a Russian Hedge Fund Under Senate Investigation (CNN)
6. Russia Attacked U.S. “Diplomats” (i.e. Spies) at the Cuban Embassy Using a Super-Sophisticated Sonic Microwave Weapon (NBC/MSNBC/CIA)
5. Trump Created a Secret Internet Server to Covertly Communicate with a Russian Bank (Slate)
4. Paul Manafort Visited Julian Assange Three Times in the Ecuadorian Embassy and Nobody Noticed (Guardian/Luke Harding)
3. CNN Explicitly Lied About Lanny Davis Being Its Source – For a Story Whose Substance Was Also False: Cohen Would Testify that Trump Knew in Advance About the Trump Tower Meeting (CNN)
2. Robert Mueller Possesses Internal Emails and Witness Interviews Proving Trump Directed Cohen to Lie to Congress (BuzzFeed)
1. Donald Trump Jr. Was Offered Advanced Access to the WikiLeaks Email Archive (CNN/MSNBC)
Here's that fake news winner explained:
CNN has deleted much of its super-heated coverage, but this correction remains:
We can laugh at the sheer incompetence behind all this fake news and even gloat that the fakers now stand humiliated.
But how many people would have read or heard the initial (fake) claims, but not the later corrections?
Here's yet another case to show that the plural of "allegation" is not "proof". Yet to many in the media, it seems it is.
