In all the excitement over promoting the debut of Megyn Kelly's Sunday night program opposite 60 Minutes, NBC indulged in a fake news Russia conspiracy fantasy and got busted. Taking to Twitter, the Comcast-owned network hyped an "exclusive" (in all caps) revelation from Megyn Kelly's interview with Vladimir Putin: EXCLUSIVE: Putin does not deny having compromising information on President Trump in interview with Megyn Kelly It was one of those stories "too good to check" – even against the network's own transcript of the interview. Sister NBC network CNBC did sign on to the fake news effort and reported that Putin denied having compromising information: Russia's Putin denies having compromising information on Trump https://t.co/orHEuaBLGU— CNBC (@CNBC) June 4, 2017 As did Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly denied he had any compromising material about U.S. President...(Read Full Post)
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