Washington Post Corrects, Removes reporting that relied on discredited anti-Trump Steele dossier
Paper ‘took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles,’ in-house media reporter wrote
The Washington Post did something many other liberal outlets have failed to do and corrected previous reporting that relied on the
discredited Steele dossier that accused former President Donald Trump of an extensive conspiracy with the Russians.
"The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles, published in March 2017 and February 2019, that had identified a Belarusan American businessman as a key source of the ‘Steele dossier,’ a collection of largely unverified reports that claimed the Russian government had compromising information about then-candidate Donald Trump," Post media reporter Paul Farhi
wrote.
"The newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said The Post could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story. It had identified businessman Sergei Millian as ‘Source D,’ the unnamed figure who passed on the most salacious allegation in the dossier to its principal author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele," Farhi continued.
Washington Post corrects, removes reporting that relied on discredited anti-Trump Steele dossier