Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
This is just a terrible case. It's one of the only times I have rated a movie 1 star rating because of how much they lied about real life. It ends with text making him out to be some hero journalist.
In reality he is an example of everything wrong with journalism. He did do basic research, but his conclusions were extreme compared to his evidence. 3 government reports were made on his claims all disputing his conclusions. He killed himself partly because he couldn't get a job in journalism anymore. But that's on him. He set back journalism a few years.