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CNN Gets Trashed for Response to Fake Syria Story
In reality, the man is a former Syrian intelligence officer.
Last week, CNN journalist Clarissa Ward and an unidentified cameraman for the network ... who disappeared while reporting in ...
The man “may have given a false identity,” the network said on Monday. CNN said Monday that it is investigating the identity ...
The news outlet reported the man was said to have been involved with the collapsed Assad regime as an intelligence officer.
D: CNN‘s Clarissa Ward said that a man identified in her report as a prisoner under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad, the ...
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of ...
CNN acknowledged this week it had been misled by a man purporting to be a Syrian prisoner but who was, in fact, a former ...
In her video report from Wednesday, CNN's Clarissa Ward was seen helping a prisoner escape from a jail in Damascus, Syria.
Social media users have questioned CNN's role in the entire incident as it was revealed that the alleged prisoner was accused ...
A Syrian fact-checking group alleges the man in the viral report had a violent past and had been detained for less than a ...