I've just come to realize that there's a common pattern they follow when the 'news' is either fake or grossly misrepresented. You see it a lot regarding the Russia narrative. It's basically a propaganda campaign meant to push a false narrative and warp public opinion.
It's usually when one (NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, NBC ,CBS, etc, etc, etc...) reports something big, then they all piggyback and report the same exact things, sometimes almost word for word, freaking out about it like it's a constitutional crisis (drama and emotion for added affect and emphasis). None of them ever stop to fact check or independently verify the story with their own source(s) or the original source(s). It's more like a game of telephone than it is unbiased reporting.
They let it circulate far and wide, garner tons of attention, get millions of clicks, likes, retweets, reposts, etc.... Hours, sometimes days later, it's corrected or taken down, and only a miniscule amount of people see it compared to those who saw the original 'breaking news'.
The damage is already done at that point. The majority never see the correction, never stop to check for themselves, never know the truth, nor do they even care to do so because it confirms their bias. The fake news is now on it's way to be repeated over and over and over until it becomes fact/reality. Mission complete.
