So much for ‘fact-checking.’
The Associated Press recently retracted a fake news article that claimed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were “good friends.” The reporter who wrote the piece was a featured member of the wire service’s first official “misinformation team” in 2019. “The Associated Press has withdrawn its story,” the AP announced in a March 17 statement. “Gabbard was talking about Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
That’s kind of a big mistake. Not only did a reporter get basic facts wildly wrong, but no editor involved in the article’s publication took the time to double-check what would have been a statement of major international importance had a leading member of the Trump administration…
