They realized Jaime Phillips, whose picture accompanied the story, had in fact been trying to ingratiate herself with a number of Post reporters over several months. James O'Keefe, president of Project Veritas, the conservative group that sent one of its employees to peddle a false story about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to the Washington Post. Phillips claimed that Moore had impregnated her when she was 15 and driven her across state lines to get an abortion. Washington Post writer Callum Borchers said the woman who carried out the failed sting spent months trying to befriend journalists. The bylines of four reporters appear on the Washington Post story about the attempt to fool them.

Source: CBC News December 02, 2017 13:52 UTC