For weeks, Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore and supporters of his Alabama campaign have attacked the journalistic integrity of The Washington Post for publishing what they say are false allegations that Moore sexually harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s. But in a display of poetic justice Monday, a sting operation attempting to discredit the Post’s reporting backfired and instead demonstrated that its staff takes extensive measures to verify sources’ claims. The Post detailed the ordeal in a story on its site Monday. Earlier this month, a woman named Jaime T. Phillips approached the paper with allegations that Moore, in his 40s at the time, had impregnated her when she was 15. Its hope is that news outlets will fall for its false information and prove Project Veritas’ claim that the mainstream media can’t be trusted.

Source: Huffington Post November 27, 2017 23:37 UTC