LOL! I just can’t stop laughing. After the latest fake news Russia story was pulled from the CNN website this past week, CNN is apparently about to impose “new rules” on their not only biased, but fake Russia stories.
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In wake of story retraction, CNNMoney exec editor sends memo to staff mandating all "Russia-related content" must be cleared by him or VP pic.twitter.com/2Y6QMZj1h5
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 25, 2017
Higher-ups at CNN are cracking down after another botched story regarding President Trump and Russia.
The network retracted and deleted a story late last week that claimed Anthony Scaramucci, who served on Trump’s transition team, was under FBI investigation for a meeting he had with a Russian executive. That story, which was based off of one unnamed congressional source, was false.
“No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason,” CNNMoney executive editor Rich Barbieri said in an email obtained by BuzzFeed. “This applies to social, video, editorial, and MoneyStream. No exceptions.” The “Jason” referred to in the email is a vice president at CNN, according to BuzzFeed.
CNN has had an oftentimes adversarial relationship with the Trump administration and the president has taken to referring to the network as “fake news.