The Washington Post is distancing itself from PropOrNot, an anti-Russian propaganda organization with anonymous members, after citing it in a story last month detailing how Russia may have influenced the election through a carefully executed operation to spread fake news to American voters.
The newspaper added a lengthy editors note to the Nov. 24 story, headlined “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say,” explaining the Post “does not itself vouch for the validity” of the organizations findings.
The original story, written by Craig Timberg, cited PropOrNot’s report identifying more than 200 websites that may have knowingly or unknowingly shared fake news.