{"id":9021,"date":"2019-01-08T20:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2019-01-13T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:55:50","slug":"spreading-fake-news-mek-pmoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/spreading-fake-news-mek-pmoi\/9021\/","title":{"rendered":"Halt! No more spreading fake news by Iran regime!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On December 20, 2018, Spiegel published a statement<\/a> on Claas Relotius fraud case on its website that shocked the public. In this statement, the Spiegel apologized to its readers for publishing Relotius\u2019s fabricated passages for years. This was proof of how vulnerable both the public opinion and media giants are to the spreading fake news. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, the German Journalists\u2019 Union (DJU), called the case \u201cthe biggest fraud scandal in journalism since the Hitler diaries\u201d that Germany\u2019s Stern magazine published in 1983 and was later found to be forgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undoubtedly, when the demonizing campaign<\/a> against the MEK<\/a>\/PMOI by media such as Guardian, Independent, MSNBC, Al Jazeera and English Channel 4 would be disclosed, the situation would become even more abhorrent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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