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This is why journalists try to get multiple sources to corroborate what the other is saying.

• stjohnswarts 5y ago
  That's hardly very likely with whistleblower stories, all you can do is be careful with wording like "<name> claims" "<name> alleges" to qualify the reporting. I read Krebs I find it hard that he wouldn't retract something if Ubiquiti (or someone else) came to him with evidence showing the "whistleblower" was a fake that he wouldn't retract the article based on new information. He seems like a good journo to me and has nothing to lose by doing such. He reports on a lot of stuff and now one is going to be constantly fact checking every story they ever put out there. It's impossible. I suspect Ubiquiti filed this before they ever contacted him about the whistleblower being a fake.