This week, BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about how proud he is about publishing the still-unverified dossier on Donald Trump that paints his 2016 presidential campaign as having deep ties to the Russian government.

The dossier, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, exposed how then-candidate Trump had colluded with and been compromised by the Russian government. The dossier was shopped to numerous news organizations before BuzzFeed finally published it in January 2017. Then-President-elect Trump called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage,” and with good reason. To this day, there are still several reports that cannot be verified independently, such as Trump’s encounter with Russian prostitutes.