Uncritical media parrots Planned Parenthood hacking claim

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Planned Parenthood’s claim that it suffered a cyber attack Wednesday has been met with little skepticism from the press, despite an absence of proof and a changing story from the group about what happened.

Planned Parenthood’s web properties reportedly “suffered a ‘Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack,'” a spokeswoman for the group said Thursday. “The website is under our control now but it is down until we can restore the site and put safeguards in place.”

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