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To be fair, they have a better track record than most media outlets. They don't trust the information at face value until, according to them at least, it has been verified. What that verification process is I have no idea, but so far it does appear to be working. I might just be out of the loop, though, so if that is the case what misinformation have they spread?

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I've never heard of them verifying the information. They said they didn't even know where it came from. I doubt the DNC helped verify the emails.

> what misinformation have they spread?

Russian intelligence provided them with the data. I think we can assume it wasn't the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

EDIT: You are correct that I can't prove that it's misinformation. However, that is a normal part of a sophisticated misinformation campaign - that its targets can't discern real info from misinfo. It doesn't make my assertion correct but the absence of proof hardly makes it unlikely.

Uh, the emails were verified as unaltered via DKIM signatures. Once Wikileaks did this all the talk of doctoring vanished, but you appear not to have realized this.

That's not what I saw, I followed the issue closely and hardly saw anyone bring up that it was a likely misinformation campaign. But please let's discuss here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990832

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