Unlike several posting here this evening, I don't KNOW exactly what the statement from the

[Hugin]

31. By publishing it Buzzfeed proved the Dossier was real and people could read it's contents for...

themselves.

I certainly did.

The right wingers have had an ax out for Buzzfeed ever since. It's impending demise has been reported regularly on Trump Media Outlets.

The timing of this frenzied ad-hominem attack on Buzzfeed fits the pattern of discrediting sources perfectly.

If you can't destroy the message, destroy the messenger.

"BuzzFeed was harshly criticized by several mainstream media outlets for releasing the dossier without verifying its allegations. Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan called it "scurrilous allegations dressed up as an intelligence report meant to damage Donald Trump," while The New York Times noted that the publication sparked a debate centering on the use of unsubstantiated information from anonymous sources. BuzzFeed's executive staff said the materials were newsworthy because they were "in wide circulation at the highest levels of American government and media" and argued that this justified public release. The dossier's publication by BuzzFeed has always been defended by Jack Shafer, Politico's senior media writer, as well as by Richard Tofel of ProPublica and the Columbia Journalism Review. Shafer defended the public's right to know about the allegations against Trump, and saw a parallel in Judge Ungaro's ruling in the defamation suit filed by Aleksej Gubarev.

In relation to a defamation lawsuit filed by Gubarev against BuzzFeed, regarding their publication of the dossier, Senior Master Barbara Fontaine stated that Steele was "in many respects in the same position as a whistle-blower" because of his actions "in sending part of the dossier to Senator John McCain and a senior government national security official, and in briefing sections of the US media." She said that "it was not known who provided the dossier to BuzzFeed but Mr Steele's evidence was that he was 'horrified and remains horrified' that it was published at all, let alone without substantial redactions." Both Simpson and Steele have denied providing the dossier to BuzzFeed."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Russia_dossier#Hints_of_existence