re: BuzzFeed Editor: {we} have to engage in false statements

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But others defended BuzzFeed, including Glenn Greenwald, who broke Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s mass spying programmes. “BuzzFeed did an important journalistic service by ending the speculation … and letting everyone see what a farcical document this actually was,” he told the BBC.

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If they had put the information out there and flat out stated "we think this is nonsense but it is circulating around the government," then maybe I could believe this. They didn't.