Ex-NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who spent years fighting fake news, declares disinformation won [Video]

Former NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who recently became the CEO of satirical news website The Onion, declared “disinformation won” and said he isn’t concerned that his new gig could promote fake news if someone takes a meant-for-laughs headline seriously. 

“My first instinct is to say, ‘If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,’” Collins said during an interview on WBUR. 

“I will say, The Onion, ironically, has been, even unironically, the most correct paper of my lifetime. When it was deeply unpopular in 2003, they were some of the first people to call out the Iraq war… they’ve been up on the moral panic on trans rights,” he continued. ‘They have a very steady moral compass, and also they are probably the funniest people I ever met.” 

FORMER NBC NEWS ‘DISINFORMATION’ REPORTER BECOMES CEO OF THE ONION

Collins, who covered “disinformation, extremism and the internet for NBC News” according to his old …