Steele dossier author: ‘A lot of disinformation is true’ but lacks context

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Christopher Steele, who wrote the famed and since-discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election, discussed his views about disinformation on Tuesday in an op-ed as part of a broader media campaign to promote his new book and salvage his credibility.

Steele, a former British intelligence officer, wrote in Newsweek that disinformation can be true information that is missing key context, and he criticized the “average journalist” as unscrupulous.

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