Ethical questions raised about why leading US news outlets spiked leaked insider information from Trump campaign
The three newspapers’ decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives and mainstream news organisations covered them avidly.
Republicans accuse Iran of hacking Trump campaign, but Tehran refutes the allegations
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York said in an email that “the Iranian government neither possesses nor harbours any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election.”
