{"id":2685427,"date":"2026-10-16T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignserial-liar-and-russia-hoaxer-ken-dilanian-should-not-be-allowed-within-500-feet-of-a-newsroom\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:08:06","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignserial-liar-and-russia-hoaxer-ken-dilanian-should-not-be-allowed-within-500-feet-of-a-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignserial-liar-and-russia-hoaxer-ken-dilanian-should-not-be-allowed-within-500-feet-of-a-newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Dilanian Shouldn&#8217;t Be Allowed Within 500 Feet Of A Newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignserial-liar-and-russia-hoaxer-ken-dilanian-should-not-be-allowed-within-500-feet-of-a-newsroom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2685427&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes Ken Dilanian of MS Now for spreading false data about FBI Director kash Patel, claiming he landed in Russia when he was actually in Virginia. Dilanian issued a correction but did not disclose his sources, raising questions about his credibility. This incident is part of a broader pattern of alleged misinformation linked to Dilanian, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >historically promoted dubious claims related<\/a> to the Russia investigation and other politically sensitive topics. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warren-reaction-to-ceo-murder-confirms-dems-are-pro-violence\/\" title=\"Warren Reaction To CEO Murder Confir... De... Are Pro-Violence\">article highlights past instances<\/a> where Dilanian&#8217;s reporting was later debunked or corrected, including misrepresentations about the Trump-Russia collusion, the Trump jr. meeting, and the Hunter Biden laptop story. It accuses Dilanian of contributing to propaganda efforts to influence public opinion and suggests that his reporting often aligns with partisan agendas, damaging Republican interests while aiding Democrats. The piece also touches on Dilanian\u2019s alleged connections with intelligence agencies before his journalism career and criticizes his role in spreading misinformation around key political events, including the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. it portrays Dilanian as a figure heavily involved in biased and sometimes false reporting, with minimal accountability.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MS NOW\u2019s Ken Dilanian was caught spreading fake news about FBI Director Kash Patel on live television Wednesday, adding to a long history of peddling propaganda such as the debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>MS Now\u2019s Peter Alexander paused his show Wednesday, announcing FBI Director Kash Patel \u201clanded in Russia for a meeting scheduled to take place there. That\u2019s according to two people familiar with the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MS Now\u2019s Ken Dilanian joined, telling Alexander, \u201cWe don\u2019t know what Kash Patel\u2019s doing in Russia, and that\u2019s one of the things concerning our FBI sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with this scoop is that it was entirely false. Less than three hours after providing this breaking scoop, Dilanian was back on the network apologizing for the fake news, Mediate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/we-regret-this-error-ms-nows-ken-dilanian-gives-a-full-mea-culpa-for-falsely-reporting-kash-patel-landed-in-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to correct reporting from earlier today. I reported that two sources had told us that FBI director Kash Patel had landed in Russia for a planned trip that had been reported about recently. We\u2019ve since learned that Patel did not, in fact, land in Russia today and remains in the U.S. \u2026 The timing of any potential trip remains unclear. Again, we regret this error, and we are transparent about when we make errors. Back to you,\u201d Dilanian <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexchristy17\/status\/2110447810499797168?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Dilanian did not reveal his sources even when it became evident the information was false. As The Federalist\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/2110813971062423850?s=20\">said<\/a> on X, Dilanian\u2019s correction raises questions: \u201cSo did Ken Dilanian just fabricate his claim that Kash Patel was in Russia? Did he misunderstand a lone source, lie and claim he had 2 sources telling him this? Did someone lie to him?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So did Ken Dilanian just fabricate his claim that Kash Patel was in Russia? Did he misunderstand a lone source, lie and claim he had 2 sources telling him this? Did someone lie to him? The one question I don&#8217;t have is whether he&#8217;ll be fired by MSNBC. He was hired to lie, so no.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/2110813971062423850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Patel was at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. FBI Rapid Response <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBI_Response\/status\/2110418419862610189?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded to the attempted hoax on X, posting<\/a>: \u201cMS Now\u2019s \u2018sources\u2019 are \u2018familiar\u2019 with NOTHING!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist inquired with MS Now about Dilanian\u2019s \u201cpattern of spreading false reports\u201d and asked: \u201cGiven this pattern, what disciplinary action has MSNOW taken against Dilanian? If none, is any planned?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MS NOW did not respond to The Federalist at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian, like many others of the propaganda press, has a record of publishing dubiously sourced claims that hurt Republicans and help Democrats, with corrections coming only after the stories have shaped public debate. When the Hillary Clinton campaign commissioned the Steele dossier, a compilation of salacious rumors about then-candidate Donald Trump, during the 2016 election, the media was a key co-conspirator in what would become the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Architects of the Russia hoax fed the narrative to their friends in the press, who jumped at the chance to smear Trump despite the dossier\u2019s shoddy sourcing. One instance of this might simply be considered journalistic negligence, but a repeated pattern \u2014 as Dilanian and others like him have shown \u2014 suggests more than just incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian was deeply involved in the Russia hoax. In April 2017 he and Carol Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2017\/09\/01\/nbc-news-whiffs-on-russiagate-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published a story<\/a> about the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort were also reportedly present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo sources tell NBC News that Manafort\u2019s smartphone notes from the meeting included the words \u2018donations\u2019 in close proximity to the reference to the Republican National Committee,\u201d the report read. The report used this \u201cevidence\u201d to make the meeting appear more significant to investigators trying to determine if there was any collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News eventually issued a correction after Sen. Chuck Grassley\u2019s team indicated the word  \u201cdonation\u201d was not present in the notes, though the outlet held that the \u201cdonor\u201d may have been used. But as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/12\/04\/fusion-gps-scandal-implicates-media-possible-pay-publish-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lee Smith<\/a> wrote in these pages, that \u201cdifference \u2026 nullified the thrust of the story, which was to suggest that Russia was funneling money directly to the Trump campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks after the correction Dilanian\u2019s reporting was once again undercut.<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian reported in October of 2017 that Sen. Richard Burr and Sen. Mark Warner had said \u201cthey had been able to corroborate some aspects\u201d of the Steele dossier. <\/p>\n<p>But as Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/10\/10\/u-s-media-help-russia-destabilize-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in these pages, \u201cneither Burr nor Warner suggested anything of the sort.\u201d Instead, as Smith reported, Burr said that \u201cthe committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who are your sources and subsources?\u201d Dilanian further <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenDilanianNBC\/status\/915925726871900160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claim<\/a>ed\u00a0that his sources \u201ctold NBC News the committee has corroborated parts of the dossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Steele <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/apr\/25\/christopher-steele-admits-dossier-charge-unverifie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">himself later admitted<\/a> his sources were unverified. <\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the 2020 election, U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that contained damaging information about the Bidens, and laid the groundwork for censorship of the story before it even broke. They did so by planting suspicion that the laptop\u2019s damning contents were \u201cdisinformation\u201d fabricated by Russia. <\/p>\n<p>For example, former FBI General Counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/04\/james-baker-hunter-biden-laptop-fisa-censor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Baker<\/a>-turned-Twitter deputy general counsel wrote that it \u201cwas reasonable to assume\u201d that the contents of the laptop \u201cmay have been\u201d hacked and that \u201ccaution is warranted.\u201d Notably, the story was throttled across the platform, and users who shared the story had their accounts<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/kayleigh-mcenany-locked-out-of-twitter-for-sharing-posts-hunter-biden-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> locked<\/a>. Meta CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/26\/confirmed-fbi-colluded-with-big-tech-to-prevent-voters-from-learning-about-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg <\/a>admitted on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast that the FBI warned the tech giants that there would be a \u201cdump\u201d of \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d like that which purportedly occurred in 2016. Facebook similarly throttled the story.<\/p>\n<p>The day after the New York Post broke the laptop story, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/26\/democrats-spin-weisss-latest-indictment-into-new-russia-hoax-to-let-biden-skate-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dilanian<\/a> swooped in with an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/03\/27\/61-hacks-peddled-russian-collusion-never-trusted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusive<\/a>\u201d spreading speculation that the laptop was \u201clinked to a foreign intelligence operation.\u201d The Hunter Biden laptop and its contents were real and not part of a foreign intelligence operation. Instead, Hunter had left his computer at a repair shop, and the FBI confirmed its authenticity. But the Biden administration, Big Tech, and others used these false claims of Russian disinformation \u2014 laundered through media toadies like Dilanian \u2014 to censor the story in the critical weeks leading up to Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian had also tried to gin up hysteria amid the Mar-a-Lago raid, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1558832082327113729?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggesting<\/a> Trump could have retained \u201cthings like names of CIA sources in Moscow or images from the most advanced spy satellites\u201d or the \u201cmost protected secrets in the U.S. government.\u201d None of those things <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/detailed-inventory-released-of-material-seized-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-11662129221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were reported<\/a> to have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian had also previously come under fire after <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2014\/09\/04\/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Intercept<\/a> reported that Dilanian, while working for the Los Angeles Times, \u201croutinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication.\u201d Dilanian would \u201cexplicitly promis[e] positive news coverage,\u201d The Intercept reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn at least one instance, the CIA\u2019s reaction appears to have led to significant changes in the story that was eventually published in the <em>Times<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delanian\u2019s \u201cjournalistic\u201d career is rife with partisan deployments of anonymous sources and speculation about \u201cforeign intelligence\u201d to repeatedly bolster narratives about Republicans that were politically damaging even though they turned out to be completely false.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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