WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived

In the pastsix weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears ahumiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that the core claims of thestory were fiction: The first note was posted a full two weeks laterto the top of the original article; the other was buried the...