Steele says he used unverified information to support details about web company in dossier
A newly released snippet of a deposition with the ex-British spy behind the Trump-Russia dossier describes some of the steps he took to verify information he collected for it in 2016, including pulling from a user-generated citizen journalism initiative by CNN, iReport, which no longer operates.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/politics/steele-information-dossier/index.html