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CBS News A CBS News headline accompanying a story about Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has generated significant online scrutiny, and the Paramount Skydance news outlet, once known for its reserve, appears to feel the facts presented in the work outweigh the digital opprobrium.
On Monday morning, the CBS News feed on X posted a story with the accompanying headline: “As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001,” the post said, “Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.” The story described the candidate as someone who “opposed American wars and capitalized on anger over anti-Arab sentiment in a state with a robust and active Muslim community.” As evidence, the story cited two deleted posts that had originally surfaced in 2020 and compared the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic with the death toll from terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
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