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Buzzfeed journalists free to call Donald Trump a 'mendacious racist' says editor-in-chief

on Dec 9, 2015 | 0 comments

By Rebecca Stewart

Buzzfeed’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, has told the site’s journalists that they are permitted to call Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump a “racist” on social media as a matter of fact.

In a memo sent to his editorial team, Smith clarified that staff would not find themselves in trouble for calling the property tycoon “a liar or a racist”.

“It is, for instance, entirely fair to call him a mendacious racist, as the politics team and others here have reported clearly and aggressively,” Smith said in the email.

“He’s out there saying things that are false and running an overtly anti-Muslim campaign. BuzzFeed News’s Read full story ›

Source: The Drum