Embarrassing! Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reports that The Washington Post published a very fake headline at the top of Monday’s newspaper: “Obama sought to prod Facebook on Russia role.”
“The problem, according to a Facebook executive, is that when Obama reached out to the social media giant in 2016 to discuss political disinformation spreading on the site, he didn’t actually call out Russia,” Flood wrote.
The story by three reporters – Adam Entous, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and Craig Timberg – insisted Obama pulled Facebook chief executive Jeff Zuckerberg aside at a meeting of world leaders in Lima, Peru on November 19 to deliver “what he hoped would be a wake-up call. For months leading up to the vote, Obama and his top aides quietly agonized on how to respond to Russia’s brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign without making matters worse.” – READ MORE
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