ajobbins:

 

Stan: How can you give any credibility to golden shower gate? Have you read it? It's just more fake news.

 

There is nothing about the CNN report that is "FAKE NEWS". This is basically true for the Buzzfeed report to, as well as other media reporting.

 

CNN reported that a document was being examined by the FBI (acknowledged as true) and that document had a number of assertions that all have called out as unverified. They reported that a summary of that document was presented to both the President and President elect, as well as a small number of senior officials. No one has denied these facts.

 

The report itself is not fake, nor is the media reporting of the existence of the report or the fact it's being looked into further. The source of the report is said to be considered credible.

 

HOWEVER

 

The allegations or assertions contained WITHIN the report may be 100% false, 100% real or somewhere in between, but CNN and others have made this VERY CLEAR in their reporting. Even Buzzfeed did.

 

Buzzfeed are probably the only ones worthy of any criticism here, but it's not for posting "fake news", its for posting the source information that, while called out as unverified, is likley to be assumed by some as fact.

 

A real report that has unverified assertions, reported as such, does not fake news make.

 

How can this possibly be fake news? Gérard Depardieu, Russian citizen in good standing and personal friend of Putin, has publicly stated that big men cannot hold their water. Donald Trump is a big man. Ergo ipso facto, it must be true.