Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a lawsuit

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Hunter Walker

Yahoo NewsAugust 2, 2017

 

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WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory about the fatal shooting of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

Feinberg, who was the White House correspondent for Sputnik, first made the allegations when he left the Russian outlet in May. However, his story is newly relevant in light of a lawsuit filed this week that accused President Trump and the White House of playing a role in a “fake news” story designed to advance the same conspiracy theory.

Feinberg started at Sputnik in January, just as Trump took office. He was the outlet’s first reporter to work inside the West Wing. In a conversation with Yahoo News on Wednesday, Feinberg alleged that Sputnik wanted him to bring up a news article that’s at the center of the lawsuit in the White House press briefing room.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/reporter-says-state-run-russian-propaganda-outlet-pushed-cover-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory-center-new-white-house-lawsuit-000407907.html

Edited August 3, 2017 by Il Mango Dulce

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It Appears Putin & Trump Helped Create the Seth Rich Hoax

 https://ir.net/news/politics/126490/appears-putin-trump-helped-create-seth-rich-hoax/

 

 

By now most of our readers have heard about the unfortunate Seth Rich hoax which was pushed hard by the far-right and many reporters at Fox News, before the network announced that they were pulling the story. Still though, Sean Hannity of Fox News continued to run with the conspiracy theory, as did many other right-wing media outlets.

Just yesterday, it was reported that a lawsuit was filed by a former Fox News contributor, named Rod Wheeler, claiming that he was misquoted by others on Fox News about the Seth Rich story, and that President Trump himself reviewed the story before giving Fox the OK to go live with it. The lawsuit claims that a wealthy Trump donor named Ed Butowsky was the one who was pushing Wheeler to spread the conspiracy theory, and that he spread false quotes on Wheeler’s behalf.