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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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