BREAKING! Buzzfeed declares VICTORY in lawsuit on Trump Dossier!

by SooperMexican

Buzzfeed publisher Ben Smith is celebrating today after a victory over a Russian who sued them for publishing the Trump Dossier.

Gubarev immediately denied the allegations in the Trump dossier when Buzzfeed first published it. Here’s what he said from state-owned RT:

Tech expert Aleksey Gubarev, who alongside his IT company, has been listed in a report alleging close ties between Donald Trump and Russia, told RT that he was never contacted by any intelligence service on the matter and that the report is “fake news.”

Text of the report alleging cooperation between Donald Trump’s camp and Russian hackers, and also claiming that Moscow has been blackmailing the US president-elect for past sex adventures, was published on Buzzfeed website Tuesday. However, the allegations, reportedly compiled by a former UK intelligence agent Christopher Steel are unverified and also contain mistakes (like misspelling Russia’s Alfa Bank as ‘Alpha’ Bank).

Among others, the paper in question included Gubarev’s name and his global tech Holding XBT, which also runs a Dallas operated company Webzilla. It is alleged in the report that XBT was linked to the recent hacking scandal with the US Democratic Party and a following leak of the emails from its institutions and members.

“We were shocked to find our names there,” Gubarev told RT, saying he had “never met” anyone listed in the report. “Nobody from the intelligence agency contacted me about this story… to verify this information,” he said. Neither did any journalists reach out to him, Gubarev said.

So he sued Buzzfeed. The federal judge found that because it’s an official document, they had a right to publish it.

BUT Buzzfeed Ben is using this to justify his publishing of  the document:

Which is stupid. Just because a judge said you had a right to publish it doesn’t mean it’s not fake news, or that it was journalistically proper to do so. You beat a lawsuit. That’s it. Buzzfeed still got destroyed in the media for publishing it when it was not verified at all.


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