The Washington Post corrected and removed information relying on the discredited Steele dossier, but Fox News asked when Big Tech will enforce its own rules against the tweets that perpetuated the dossier’s “misinformation.”
Former President Donald Trump’s presidency was sabotaged by conspiracy theories that he had been compromised by Russia, but facts emerged that are forcing liberal outlets to eat their words. “The Washington Post corrected and removed large chunks of its own reporting on the anti-Trump Steele dossier on Friday, admitting it ‘could no longer stand by the accuracy’ of those elements – but the inaccurate information was not removed from Twitter,” Fox News observed Nov. 15. Twitter notoriously blocks stories and posts that embarrass Democrats. However, it allows them to continue if they embarrass conservatisms.
The Washington Post Media reporter Paul Farhi even published a blog headlined “The Washington Post corrects, removes parts of two stories regarding the Steele dossier.” The article admitted the outlet “took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles” and that it “could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story.” Even so, Fox News observed that related tweets from The Post“The politics division” is available on twitter. They appear to have yet not been marked as misinformation. One such tweet from February 2019 still says, “Sergei Millian, identified as an unwitting source for the Steele dossier, sought proximity to Trump’s world in 2016.”
Fox News also remembered a tweet from The Post: “Who is ‘Source D’? The man said to be behind the Trump-Russia dossier’s most salacious claim.” There is no flagon the tweet even though the embedded article was modified due to inaccuracies.
Fox News noted: “[T]The record was corrected by the Washington Post, which became the largest news agency to do so on Friday. The paper altered two major stories, adding editor’s notes, and deleting sections of its reporting that identified Millian as a key source of the dossier.”
If Twitter was serious about tackling so-called “misinformation,” it would penalize The PostFor tweets that contain links to articles not correctly reported by the outlet.
But Twitter has a history of leaving misinformation untouched when it suits the left’s narrative. For example, the World Health Organization was not censored for its tweet regurgitating the Chinese government’s propaganda and potentially making the COVID-19 crisis worse. This is the WHO used TwitterTo tell the world by mid-January 2020
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.”
Twitter still has not yet taken any action regarding the now-famous tweet.
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