So Newsweek settled the libel/fake news suit brought by another journalist that Kurt Eichenwald got them into. The case alleged bribery and Eichenwald threats to buy the editor's silence over a false story regarding Russia, President Trump and WikiLeaks
And it now looks like Newsweek has fired Eichenwald over it
Sputnik writer Bill Moran had written a piece that included a misattributed quote that Trump, then a presidential candidate, used in a speech that same day.
Upon realizing a mistake had been made, Moran took the story down, but not before Trump had read it and mentioned it at a rally in Pennsylvania.
But Eichenwald, a senior writer at Newsweek, had concluded the only way Trump could have learned about the "misattributed quote was purposeful collusion with the Russians, and that the Wikileaks documents themselves had been altered," according to Paste.
Moran reached out to Newsweek and Eichenwald and requested his story, titled "Dear Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, I Am Not Sidney Blumenthal," be corrected. He says the request was ignored, but he was contacted by Eichenwald.
The 56-year-old Eichenwald, also an MSNBC contributor, offered "to either help [Moran] get a job at New Republic, in seeming exchange for silence, or update the piece with a paragraph naming him. This latter option came with a warning that aligning himself with Sputnik made him unhirable," according to Paste.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/343430-newsweek-settles-with-sputnik-writer?amp