Der Spiegel ‘Fake News’ Reporter May Face Criminal Charges

Der Spiegel ‘Fake News’ Reporter May Face Criminal Charges
A man looks into the latest issue of German newsweekly Der Spiegel with a cover page that reads, "To say, what is" in Cologne, Germany, on Dec. 22, 2018. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
John Smithies
Updated:

The German reporter at the center of a fake news scandal might soon be charged with embezzlement.

Claas Relotius, 33, was discovered to have faked some of his stories for the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel.
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