“Information has impact,” the Washington Post has insisted . And on Thursday, the paper showed how quickly its reporting could lead to results. At the same time, it got labeled as a purveyor of fake news because of the change it led to.

“U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols,” the Post reported , citing publicly available updated guidelines set to take effect Dec. 15 that revised the description of the Nazi insignia and representation of lynchings to “potentially divisive.”

The reporting, which comes as the Trump Administration has pledged to combat antisemitism while the Defense Department (which the Coast Guard does not sit under) has criticized anti-harassment policy as “overly broad,” sparked immediate outcry from the public and memb

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