Facebook (and Google, political pundits, and many others) got themselves into this pickle by trumpeting unsubstantiated claims based on their own biased politic

Facebook (and Google, political pundits, and many others) got themselves into this pickle by trumpeting unsubstantiated claims based on their own biased political narratives to begin with. One of the major claims recently being that Russia interfered with the election by hacking the DNC and releasing emails and other data. This has now been shown to be absolutely false by two reports coming out of the NSA of all places (whom normally don't say anything to anyone outside of their Congressional oversight committee and the DOD). Long story short - it was an inside job, and the metadata was changed on the files to try and shift blame to Russian sources before those files were released. Now it's total crickets from these very same groups that were pushing this narrative and they've all but swept Russia under the rug, and now they're wondering why people are giving them the middle finger about their "facts".