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This is yet another case where everyone now knows a major story was completely false but because the reporter (The Atlantic's @IsaacDovere) is popular with journalists & the target of his smear isn't (David Sirota), nobody cares & thus no correction theintercept.com/2019/03/23/the…
Remember the Guardian's blockbuster that Manafort secretly visited Julian Assange 3 times in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Everyone now knows that story is not just false but a joke, but Guardian never retracted it because journaliste hate Assange so who cares. theintercept.com/2019/01/02/fiv…
Major media figures are free to issue false claims about people as long as the targets of their falsehoods have no power in Washington and are sufficiently disliked by most mainstream journalists. When that happens, there is zero pressure or incentive to correct the false story.
