CBS News Faces Backlash Over El-Sayed 9/11 Tweet Coverage
A CBS News report on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, which cited deleted 2020 tweets referencing September 11 and compared death tolls, sparked a large online backlash and internal scrutiny over perceived bias and the framing of the headline, with critics questioning editor Bari Weiss’s influence while CBS defended reporting on a politician’s past posts.