Fake News Whoppers
3/14/17
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from Limbaugh Letter,
3/1/17:
Fifteen supposed news stories in January & February targeting Donald Trump and his administration.
See the list of stories at The Limbaugh Letter:
More whoppers from Media Research Center.
- In January, the Washington Post published an article claiming Russian hackers penetrated a U.S. electricity grid in Vermont. The claim turned out to be false but instead of pulling the original story, the Post published a follow-up story to walk-back the claim while attempting to retain the story’s political effect.
- On January 20, Inauguration day, Time magazine reporter Zeke Miller reported that the Trump administration removed a piece of artwork, the Martin Luther King bust, from the Oval Office. Turns out the bust had not been removed but that didn’t stop Miller from reporting false information based on incomplete – or no information.
- On February 2, The Daily Mail falsely reported that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch founded a “Fascism Forever” group as the result of a blurb of text in his high school yearbook. Gorsuch’s peers clarified that it was a “total joke” that was made only because he was known to be more conservative than his peers and teachers.