Totally not fake news CNN:

  HanAssholeSolo’ confesses (parody)

And as Instapundit says, “it’s come to this,” linking to VOX lecturing CNN: CNN is being accused of blackmailing a pro-Trump Reddit user for posting things it didn’t like

CNN also provided a statement to me in its defense: “CNN decided not to publish the name of the Reddit user out of concern for his safety. Any assertion that the network blackmailed or coerced him is false. The user, who is an adult male, not a 15-year-old boy, apologized and deleted his account before ever speaking with our reporter. CNN never made any deal, of any kind, with the user. In fact, CNN included its decision to withhold the user’s identity in an effort to be completely transparent that there was no deal.”

A plain reading of CNN’s article, however, contradicts what the network and Kaczynski are saying. (emphasis added) If CNN really intended to withhold HanAssholeSolo’s information regardless of what he did, then why didn’t the news organization say it was withholding his private information simply because he’s a private citizen? Why did it go on to add all the conditions about his behavior? And why did it say it could release the private information with an explicit condition tied to his behavior?

Down goes CNN’s credibility, around the bowl and down the hole.