There’s the game of telephone. The CIA tells something to the BND. The BND then tells something to German officials. That information is given to ‘Der Spiegel’ which writes what they consider to be defensible. That information then gets retold in the Anglo press/ Twitter without the caveats that ‘Der Spiegel’ made.
In this particular case ‘Der Spiegel’ already had to withdraw claims made in their initial article, but that gets of course ignored in most of the sources that cite it.
There’s the game of telephone. The CIA tells something to the BND. The BND then tells something to German officials. That information is given to ‘Der Spiegel’ which writes what they consider to be defensible. That information then gets retold in the Anglo press/ Twitter without the caveats that ‘Der Spiegel’ made.
In this particular case ‘Der Spiegel’ already had to withdraw claims made in their initial article, but that gets of course ignored in most of the sources that cite it.