MONICA SHOWALTER: Did Fusion GPS pay journalists to publish fake news?
Circumstantial information also signals that there may be more than just killing stories in Fusion GPS’s repertoire. According to an investigation by The Tablet, Fusion GPS also influences reporters to write stories, effectively planting them. Halvorssen accuses reporter Ken Silverstein, who identifies himself as a journalist with cash-flow problems and a friend of Fusion GPS’s founder Glenn Simpson, as one such person who has taken his cue to write based on information that apparently came from Fusion GPS, although Silverstein denies it. Silverstein’s work generally seems to be very good yet what he wrote about Halvorssen is utter rubbish, seemingly out of character.Developing…
With those kinds of allegations going on, it’s very much the public’s right to know whether journalists have been bought off by firms like Fusion GPS, which has been known to take money from the Russians. There’s not a reputable news outlet out there that will tolerate this kind of activity and yes, anyone who does engage in such profit-taking, for whatever reason without telling anyone does get fired, as the recent firing of Wall Street Journal chief foreign correspondent Jay Solomon shows. Readers have a right to know that their news is untainted by sly little payments from special interests made under the table.
Particularly if they are foreign governments, in the case of Fusion GPS.
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