The Washington Post and New York Times issued major retractions on Saturday after initially reporting that Rudy Giuliani and One America News were warned by the FBI they were targets of a major Russian disinformation campaign during the 2020 presidential election season.
The Post reported on Thursday the FBI warned Giuliani in late 2019 "He was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage President [Joe] Biden."
The Times claimed Giuliani had received a "Defensive briefing" in which FBI agents were "Cautioning him that some of the information he was pushing on the Biden family was tainted by Russian intelligence's efforts to spread disinformation."
Giuliani's attorney, Robert Costello, told CNN, "This story is totally false according to Mayor Giuliani. He never received any such briefing."
The Post issued a retraction acknowledging that neither Giuliani nor OAN received warnings from the FBI as the newspaper initially claimed.
The Times, on the other hand, initially edited out their claims about Giuliani having received a warning from the FBI without including an editor's note explaining the correction.
The newspaper later added the following note at the bottom of its story, "An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing."
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Washington Post, NY Times issue major corrections over story that Rudy Giuliani's lawyer called 'totally false'
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