From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, the unsolved murder of Seth Rich, how the story spread, warped, and revealed a truth.

Fake news dies hard.

And the two members of the Trump campaign, who Russia identified as its best chance of influencing Donald Trump.

It's Thursday, May 25th.

Last week, a story reemerged in the media, a kind of case study of how and why fake news indoors.

My colleague Michael Grimbaum traced the story back to its beginning.

Well, it starts on a July evening last summer in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington,

where a young man named Seth Rich was murdered.

He was shot in the back. His body was found later that night.

He was walking home from a bar on the phone with his girlfriend.

The initial reports from the DC police was that this was a failed robbery attempt.

And what's significant about this guy, Seth Rich?

Seth was a staffer at the Democratic National Committee, which at the time this was in the run-up to the political conventions,

they were working to help Hillary Clinton's campaign.

So what's the media coverage of his death early on?

So it's not every day that a DNC staffer is murdered in the streets of Washington.

Family and friends are grieving the loss of a young man killed in DC over the weekend.

And it was reported as you might imagine a local crime story was.

He's from Nebraska.

He came to Washington to get involved in politics.

He wanted to make the world a better place.

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