In media news, CNN is facing widespread backlash after the fact-checking group Verify-Sy and CNN’s own investigation determined that a person interviewed on a CNN video report claiming to be a Syrian prisoner was actually a former intelligence officer in the Bashar al-Assad regime who once ran a notorious checkpoint in Homs. CNN’s report shows journalist Clarissa Ward and her team stumbling upon the person, who has now been identified as former Syrian Air Force Lieutenant Salama Mohammad Salama, who claimed to have been held in a windowless cell for three months in a Damascus prison.