CNN maintains Farrakhan is ‘far right’ after rest of media has corrected

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CNN’s Alisyn Camerota characterized Louis Farrakhan a “far-right extremist” Friday morning — after the Washington Post issued a correction Thursday that he had been mislabeled as a “far-right” leader in a story about how he was barred from Facebook.

“Facebook is banning several far-right extremists from its services because it considers them dangerous,” Camerota said Friday morning. “This includes the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Also banned, Paul Nehlen — an anti-Semite who ran unsuccessfully for Congress.”

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