Speaking to RT, a former member of the British MI5 intelligence agency, Annie Machon, said that rolling out with a bright headline and later issuing a correction is part of the Washington Post’s tactics

Facts force Washington Post to backtrack on report that Russia hacked US power grid

https://www.rt.com/usa/372448-washingtonpost-retracts-russian-hackers/

.... Speaking to RT, a former member of the British MI5 intelligence agency, Annie Machon, said that rolling out with a bright headline and later issuing a correction is part of the Washington Post’s tactics.

“Time after time after time, we are seeing this fake news coming out in the Washington Post,” she said. “And every time they put these fake stories out they have to put [out] a disclaimer afterwards. But of course, the seed is then sown,” Machon said. ....

 

Egilsstaðir,  01.01.2017  Jónas Gunnlaugsson