WEBSITE LABELED 'FAKE NEWS' THREATENS TO SUE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPER
The article discusses how one of the websites The Washington Post labeled “fake news” in a November story demanded a retraction and threatened the paper with a defamation lawsuit in a demand letter Sunday. Accused of supplying fake news by a lawyer for 'Naked Capitalism', both the company's brand image and their company as a whole to potentially be sued is at risk.
- Naked Capitalism is a finance and economics blog started in December, 2006, with a stated goal of “shedding light on the dark and seamy corners of finance.”
- Naked Capitalism accuses WaPo to be provoking fake Russian propaganda news
Fake news is a perfect demonstration of why it is not always a good idea to consume information on the world wide web on everything you see, even if it is presented by a trusted and credible institution, as the understanding of how manipulative of the media is, is always true to some extents. As a result, this then allows consumers to acknowledge and be cautious of how they are to tackle this problem in the future, and to not be "fed" information.
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