The Propaganda FilesHuffPost and the 'elevator tape' no one had seen
HuffPost described a race among outlets to find a rumored tape of Trump in an elevator while acknowledging no one in media had seen it or was confident it existed. No such tape surfaced.
Who it favored: Democrats
Kept an unverified anti-Trump rumor in circulation.
The pieces
- HuffPost tweet: The Hunt For 'Every Trump Reporter's White Whale': The Elevator Tapehttps://twitter.com/huffpost/status/1018290098503340033
- Archived (archive.fo)https://archive.fo/3crCC
The other side
HuffPost's own piece was skeptical and framed the hunt as a media obsession.
Why it's here
This is filed under Subversion, not graded as a lie. What subversion means.