Thread by @kerpen

Just got 114 pages in response to my FOIA to @WHD_DOL on the @BLaw Leif Olson smear.
scribd.com/document/42878…

@WHD_DOL @BLaw The Bloomberg fakenewser says the post "started as a joke" and uses an image that -- as we suspected -- cropped out the replies commending Leif for his "epic sarcasm."

@WHD_DOL @BLaw That attachment isn't a screenshot, but a custom laid our graphic under a Facebook header and with a @BLaw credit on it, combining two cropped Facebook posts and adding a red box.

So there was probably a graphics department involved in faking this up.

@WHD_DOL @BLaw Tfg

@WHD_DOL @BLaw Not much else here other than this classic "Did I do that?" from the @BLaw editor after their smear collapsed.

@WHD_DOL @BLaw Curiously, I had heard that the @ADL quote -- itself obtained by @BLaw via deception -- was key to DOL making the mistake of asking Olson to resign, but it doesn't show up anywhere in this document production.

@WHD_DOL @BLaw @ADL Does the fakenewser who wrote this really still work at Bloomberg???

"Does the Labor Department find comments that are disparaging to Jews acceptable for a senior appointee?"

@WHD_DOL @BLaw @ADL Somebody ask that guy when he stopped beating his wife!

Aaaaand a month later we get a retraction

https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1180225706623737863?s=19

(At 5pm on a Friday)

Hey can the journalism experts help me out?

Is it cool to say "screenshot attached" and then attach a custom graphic that is not a screenshot?