Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.
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Yet you knuckleheads read and believe everything from the Left MSM......
On Thursday night,
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources (of course),
claimedthat the FBI gave a "defensive briefing” to Rudy Giuliani in 2019, before he traveled to Ukraine, that he was being targeted by a Russian disinformation campaign to hurt Joe Biden's candidacy, yet he ignored the FBI's warnings and went anyway.
The Post also claimed that the right-wing news outlet OANN was similarly briefed. The claim about Giuliani not only predictably ricocheted all over social media and cable news — where, as usual, it was uncritically treated as Truth — but it was shortly thereafter “independently confirmed” by both
NBC News’
de facto CIA spokesman Ken Dilanian along with
The New York Times.
What was the problem with this story? It was
totally false. The FBI never briefed Giuliani on any such thing. As a result,
The Washington Post had to append this "correction” — meaning a retraction — to the top of its viral story:
At first,
The New York Times attempted to quietly change the story to delete the false claims without noting they were doing so. But upon being pressured, they finally faced up to what they did and
posted their own retraction at the very bottom of the story that reads: “
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing.” In their self-glorifying jargon, the Paper of Record did not spread Fake News — perish the thought — but merely "misstated” the truth. Meanwhile,
NBC News, at the top of its false story,
posted this explanation for why Dilanian got the story completely wrong: