Every news organization's fact checking and discernment filters, right and left, has degraded in this fast paced, socially media driven world, especially with all the fake news troll sites out there.
I had to stop follownig the very site this article is posted on because of the amount of bogus stories they were passing along from those phony Macedonian news sites. Allen West (not associated with the real Allen West for years) site became one of the worst on my FB timeline.
The funny thing is this accusation of 'fake' is actually pretty tame, a one word correction, it was written as 'in the bushes' versus the correction of 'around the bushes'.