Last week, CNN “journalist” Clarissa Ward published this video of her and her news crew “rescuing” a Syrian prisoner who was “freed” from a Syrian prison.
Well, the Community Notes handled that and so did real investigative journalists. The video was a total fake, much like when Ward pretended to be in the line of fire in Israel last year.
Independent fact-checkers Verify-Sy found that the “prisoner” is a first lieutenant in the Syrian air force intelligence with a long wrap sheet of alleged war crimes. CNN was forced to respond to this but the piece is still live on its website. They said this to the New York Post: “We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity. We are continuing our reporting into this and the wider story.”
This doesn’t help with the plummeting confidence in the legacy media now, does it?
