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Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can ‘Independently Confirm’ False Information

Ashe Schow
Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can ‘Independently Confirm’ False Information
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald used his Substack column to call out media outlets parroting false information by claiming they “independently confirmed” it.

The most recent example of such false confirmation is the story surrounding former President Donald Trump’s phone call with a Georgia election investigator. Multiple media outlets, parroting The Washington Post, claimed that Trump told Frances Watson, chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, to “find the fraud” in order to show that he actually won the state and not President Joe Biden.

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