CNN Widely Mocked After Announcing a Dedicated Team to Cover "Misinformation"

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CNN Mocked After Announcing New Team ‘Dedicated To Covering Misinformation’: Must Be ‘Covering CNN’

By Daily Wire News, Jan 19, 2022

CNN was widely mocked online on Tuesday afternoon after one of its top editors announced that the left-wing news network was creating a team dedicated to “covering misinformation.”

CNN Business Managing Editor Alex Koppelman made the announcement on Twitter, writing: “I’m hiring 3 people for a new CNN team dedicated to covering misinformation.”

“What do we mean by covering misinformation?” He continued. “Really it’s about covering reality: The uses, abuses, and distortions of it, the people twisting it, and the effect that has on all of us. We already do a lot of important work on this; we want to do more.”

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Notable responses to CNN included:

Buck Sexton, radio host: “Beyond parody.”

Candace Owens, The Daily Wire: “CNN to create a team dedicated to covering CNN.”

Monica Crowley, former Trump official: “The call is coming from INSIDE the house!”

Max Abrahms, professor: “Are you going to re-cover the Steele dossier, Hunter’s laptop, the Russian bounties, ISIS’ Air Force in Syria and all the other tales CNN told?”

Steve Deace, The Blaze: “Wow, impressed that CNN is investing real resources into internal accountability.”

Ram Prasad, entrepreneur: “This team will have to mostly cover the CNN anchors.”

Jeffrey A Dove Jr., former political candidate: “So a team dedicated to covering themselves. Seems a bit much @CNN.”

Seth Dillon, The Babylon Bee: “CNN creates team dedicated to covering CNN.”

Daniel Horowitz, The Blaze: “They will need at least one staffer per reporter they have to properly shadow.”

Drew Berquist, radio host: “Now this is going to be amazing! Can’t wait. Hope Brian Stelter is involved.”

Adel Meyer, political commentator: “The propaganda is going into overdrive now. Just when we thought 2022 couldn’t get any worse…”

Lee Williams, reporter: “Are you going to assign a reporter to cover Brian Stelter full time? He’s a walking, talking disinformation source.”

Sean Davis, The Federalist: “Pretty sure the entire network is already devoted to misinformation.”

Drew Holden, media critic: “They’ve finally found a description for CNN+?”

Steve Cortes, political commentator: “May I suggest they begin with the Charlottesville #FinePeopleHoax, a damnable calumny that CNN has propagated for years 5 years now? My repudiation of their role in spreading that myth led, in fact, to my departure from broadcasting for CNN.”

Jason Rantz, radio host: “This is rather surprising. You don’t normally hear of left-wing networks hiring staff to call out its fellow anchors, reporters and analysts for spreading nonsense. Kudos to CNN for finally looking in a mirror to call out their misinformation and disingenuous takes.”

Glenn Greenwald, blogger: “Along with NBC, the New Yorker, the Atlantic and NYT, Ground Zero for the insane Trump-is-Putin’s-blackmail-pawn conspiracy theory was CNN. They were led around by CIA to spread the most unhinged conspiracy. Now they really believe they fight, rather than spread, ‘misinformation.'”

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