How Fox News twisted the Kavanaugh scandal into a way to attack the New York Times

A New York Times story from over the weekend contains a third, previously undisclosed sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The report was later updated to make it clear the new allegation is not as strongly corroborated as readers of the first version of the story may have been led to believe. Fox News is capitalizing on the revision to dismiss all the sexual misconduct allegations Kavanaugh faces — and doing so in a misleading way.

Over the past 24 hours, Fox News hosts and reporters have described changes the New York Times made to Robin Pogrebin …

Vox Sentences: The latest twist in the Kavanaugh saga

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