UPDATED: Michael Moore Fires Back at Buzzfeed Writer

UPDATES (late Tuesday):  Buzzfeed has a new piece--and Moore a fresh response to that.  And here's an Atlantic Wire piece that includes the detained director's account.

Tuesday:   See my new piece with updates at The Nation.

Buzzfeed just added this "correction":  "An earlier version of this article referred in its deck and first sentence to 'source'  at LAX; in fact, as the body of the story made clear, the criticism of Moore's account came from a single airport official."  They also took "publicity stunt" out of its headline but left "baloney" in the deck.

Waiting for Buzzfeed post:  "8 Things Wrong With Our Michael Moore Story," complete with gifs and photos.

Earlier: You may recall: A few days back, I covered the charge by Michael Moore that the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-nominated doc, 5 Broken Cameras, had been detained for quite awhile at the L.A. Airport, seemingly racially profiled by agents who could not believe this guy and his Muslim family were in town for the Oscar show.  Moore tried to help him get released.  Today, Buzzfeed published a report by Tessa Stuart claiming that the whole affair was nothing but a "publicity stunt" for the movie and the director, Emad Burnat, was held for just 25 minutes and very SOP.   This was based, however, on just one unnamed source in the Homeland Security apparatus.

Just a few minutes ago, Moore fired back on Twitter: "Tessa Stuart of Buzzfeed has lied about the Palestinian filmmaker detained at LAX and I can prove it. Tessa, I'll give u an hr to correct."  And: "Feel bad for you, being snookered by Homeland Security. Re-read your story and look for the clue of how u got used. #journalismisdead."

And in further update:  Moore, after getting no correction, has now tweeted:  "Time's up. Buzzfeed today tried to raise doubts that Oscar nominee, Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat wasn't really detained at LAX on Tues...Buzzfeed quotes a 'source' at LAX who said that Burnat was simply asked to produce his ticket to the Oscars and when he 'couldn't' he was...moved 'to a secondary inspection area where he (Burnat) found his ticket' to the Oscars & was then 'immediately allowed' into the US...Well, there's just one little problem with this story - and if Buzzfeed had bothered to ask any of the 6,000 Academy members... You see, Buzzfeed, there was no way for Emad Burnat to show Customs an Oscar ticket on Tuesday because there were no Oscar tickets on Tues!....So that's just an outright lie. Completely fabricated and easy to disprove with 1 call to the Academy. But why do that?...When the intent of your 'story' was to cast doubt on this Palestinian who was being threatened with deportation last Tuesday night at LAX..."

And Stuart replies to Moore on Twitter:  "Please help me tell both sides. I've called and emailed the director, called 2 of your agents, emailed & tweeted to you for comment." Later she added at the bottom of her story: "Having now received Moore's response to the story via Twitter, the accuracy of the TSA's account seems to hinge on the characterization of the document being searched for as a 'ticket.' BuzzFeed has now asked our TSA source to clarify and will update the story as soon as that we receive more information."