This is not actually a new report, it’s about the third time they’ve re-warmed this report which didn’t involve the voter systems and had no effect on anything. But they keep pitching it.
Via Fox News:
NBC News published a misleading headline on Tuesday that accused Russia of compromising “seven states prior to the 2016 election,” but failed to mention that it didn’t change votes until the sixth paragraph of the story.
The piece, headlined “U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election,” came with a push notification to mobile phones that alerted subscribers to the scoop. The notification hit phones at 5:44 p.m. and said, “EXCLUSIVE Russia compromised election systems in 7 states prior to 2016 vote, officials say.”
NBC News’ official Twitter account promoted the exclusive in a series of messages.
Anyone who saw the push notification or tweet, or who simply read the first few paragraphs of the story, would have had no idea that the sixth paragraph essentially makes the entire exclusive a moot point – because the “compromised election systems” didn’t actually impact voters.
All state and federal officials who spoke to NBC News agree that no votes were changed and no voters were taken off the rolls,” that paragraph said.
The language used in the headline, push notification and tweets made it possible for readers to infer that Russians had influenced voter machines and tallies when President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton on Election Day 2016. But that’s not actually what the story is about.
HT: Kevin Collier