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saltminetimes ago

It might have been fake news from the beginning, whether to have come from AP or not.

If you screw up on a story, what you should do is post a disclaimer at the top, noting that you have updated the article and detailing how you fucked up and provided false information. You don't try and cover your tracks and let people continue thinking that what they originally read was accurate. That is awful journalism and not a great excuse.

All, or most, articles begin 'Helsinki', and Helsinki is the capital of Finland

Right, but those "Helsinki" parts followed by dashes indicate where the article was written and reported from, not where the events took place.

So, in short, even if this was false information from the get go, they shouldn't try and cover up the fact that they are guilty of pushing the sorts of "fake news" that they are now trying to attack and censor.