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A conservative activist group tried to target Washington Post reporters, planting a source with a false allegation against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. But instead of publishing the story of “Jaime Phillips,” who claimed Moore impregnated her at 15 and helped her get an abortion, the Post exposed the plot and foiled the operation to dupe its journalists. After the Post first published allegations on November 9 that Moore pursued relationships with teenagers and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old, the newspaper has been dogged by easily disprovable allegations that sources were biased, paid, or both. The conservative group Project Veritas and...

Jaime T. Phillips, a woman suspected of working for an organization that targets news media, falsely told the Washington Post she was impregnated as a teenager by embattled U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore. Phillips contacted Post reporter Beth Reinhard just hours after the newspaper published the first story detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore, Alabama's Republican nominee for the Senate seat. Phillips apparently first contacted the newspaper using a fake name on an email account. The account, which included the phrase,"rolltide,"was listed under the name Lindsay James, according to a story published today by the Post.