Cenk Uygur
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Should BuzzFeed Have Published Golden Shower Trump Story?
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January 12, 2017
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15:17Now PlayingBuzzfeed recently published unverified documents making explosive claims about Donald Trump. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Laurie Penny, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"BuzzFeed’s decision to publish an intelligence report filled with salacious and unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump’s purported behaviour in Russia has triggered a political storm and debate over media ethics.
The news website posted the unredacted documents on Tuesday, just 10 days before Trump’s inauguration, with a warning that the contents contained errors and were “unverified and potentially unverifiable”.
The decision to put the claims in the public domain forced other media outlets to repeat the allegations or ignore a story that lit up the internet. Some critics rounded on BuzzFeed, calling it irresponsible.
The documents, reportedly compiled by a British former intelligence agent, alleged that the Kremlin was “cultivating, supporting and assisting” Trump for at least five years.
They also alleged that Russian spies had exploited the president-elect’s “personal obsessions and sexual perversion” to gather compromising material.
The president-elect denied and denounced the claims in a series of tweets. “*
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