During an appearance at the Global Women’s Summit put on by The Washington Post on Tuesday, CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews boasted about her organization’s new fact-checking unit “CBS News Confirmed” which was allegedly supposed to be able to identify and call out images and video that were meant to misinform the public. But as NewsBusters reported just last week, CBS Evening News promoted a video out of Gaza created by a known Hamas-linked propagandist and alleged crisis actor.
Moderator and Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee teed up Ciprian-Matthews to hype her new unit by invoking “the scourge of disinformation” and how CBS was going to be “hiring forensic journalists and people who had data visualization skills, other things like that.”
Ciprian-Matthews agreed with the analogy that what they were putting together was a “forensics team” that would be “attacking” “the uptick in deep fakes and misinformation and disinformation, you know, we are flooded with video that we really have to decipher whether it is real or imagined or intentionally edited to appear to be something that it is not.”
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