Arianna Huffington blasts CNN over misleading headline

She's not calling them fake news -- yet.
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Sasha Lekach
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Arianna Huffington blasts CNN over misleading headline
Arianna Huffington is not OK with a CNN headline. Credit: JASON CARTER RINALDI/GETTY IMAGES FOR BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE

Donald Trump is known for calling CNN "fake news," and now Arianna Huffington has joined the party.

The Uber board member criticized the cable news network during an Uber conference call on Tuesday over what she called a misleading headline.

The story in question quoted a CNN interview with the Huffington Post co-founder, in which she detailed the results of an investigation at Uber after an ex-employee detailed allegations of sexism on a public blog post in February.

During the conference call Tuesday, Huffington answered a question about sexism at the ride-sharing company and in the same breath called out CNN for its since-corrected headline that originally paraphrased her saying, "Sexism at Uber isn't systemic."

Huffington clearly thinks the publication took her out of context.

"First of all, as you may have seen, CNN corrected that headline. That's not what I said. The word 'sexist' was never mentioned in the interview by me or by the interviewer," Huffington said on the call. "The ultimate decision of what is or isn't a systemic problem will be from Eric Holder [hired to run the investigation] and the investigation which we hope will be completed by the end of April."

She said CNN had since corrected the headline.

The story's headline is now: "Arianna Huffington: Sexual harassment isn't a 'systemic problem' at Uber," with an editor's note at the bottom that says, "The headline of this article has been changed to more accurately reflect that Huffington's answers were about sexual harassment."

Despite the headline change and note, Huffington doesn't seem like she can let go.

Topics Uber

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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