Newsweek Retracts Story Reporting That Bots Forced Al Franken's Resignation

by Steven Hsieh(Newsweek, the magazine, does not exist any more. It is currently Newsweek the website.) John Moore / GETTY
On Monday, Newsweek published a story titled, "How An Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down Al Franken." Relying heavily on a blog called Unhack the Vote, Newsweek reporter Nina Burleigh made a case that a mysterious right-wing entity mobilized a network of bots to spread tweets encouraging Franken's ouster.Newsweek retracted that story today, stating that it was "unable to indepe