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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by sschueller on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:03AM (#13308570)
Regardless if this was propaganda or just bad journalism, Reuters should remove the Washington Post from their list of trusted sources.

Hundreds of papers around the world printed this and the correction will not be.

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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by grzm on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:11AM (#13308595)
Reuters should remove the Washington Post from their list of trusted sources.

Can you elaborate on this? I understand that Reuters (like other news agencies) use their own journalists. Am I misunderstanding what you mean?

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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by sschueller on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:43AM (#13308720)
From what I understand, The Washington Post is a third party content provider for Reuters. The articles that are submitted to Reuters most likely do not get verified a second time by Reuters Journalist as they trust that WaPo already did that.
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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by grzm on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:44AM (#13308722)
Interesting. Do you have a reference for this? I did an admittedly cursorily search before posting my initial comment, and didn't find any.
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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by sschueller on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:52AM (#13308751)
The Washington post is listed here as a 3rd party source [1]

[1] http://financial.thomsonreuters.com/content/dam/openweb/docu...

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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by grzm on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:59AM (#13308786)
Thanks for the extra legwork! I wonder if this extends beyond the their financial wire service, though I don't see why it wouldn't necessarily. I'd also like to know more about how third-party sources are vetted.
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