Trump lied on Twitter, and the media spread it far and wide

President-elect Donald Trump fired off two tweets on Thursday bragging about having saved American jobs. A Ford plant in Kentucky that was planning to move to Mexico, he alleged, was now going to stay in Kentucky because of his election.

The problem? There was never a Ford plant in Kentucky that was going to be moved to Mexico. Trump manufactured a crisis, and then took credit for solving it — and without pausing to verify the story, the media spread Trump’s version of reality far and wide....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-lied-on-twitter-and-the-media-spread-it-far-and-wide-4391fd4e2da4#.39nvquw9f