Newsweek retracts story on Alt-Right Bots taking down Al Franken

[NewJeffCT]

This story fell apart pretty quickly...

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[bearsfootball516]

1. Didn't Newsweek just have massive overhaul of its upper staff or something?

[NewJeffCT]

2. Yes

I believe the entire senior staff got fired

[BigmanPigman]

3. Yep!

[Jose Garcia]

6. Yes. Apparently the whole operation is being run by

three interns and a golden retriever.

[kcr]

4. So we're not going to denounce all claims of Russian bots as fake news

because Newsweek had to retract one story because they couldn't verify it, right? We're just supposed to single out the ones that attacked Franken? We're still on for dealing with Russian influence I assume.

I guess those who were pointing out all the Russian bots from day one of the Franken scandal were all somehow in on it.

[mythology]

5. The original source was a blog post by an idiot

Mike Farb is a foolish conspiracy theorist. Be careful believing what you already want to be true.

[icymist]

7. Newsweek is now owned by an extreme religious cult called The Community.

They are loosely aligned with the Moonies and The Washington Times. Here is a recent article from The Rolling Stone magazine anout this sect:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-community-5-things-we-know-about-fringe-christian-sect-w516555