AP Fires Reporter Who Risked Triggering WWIII With Polish Missile Misinformation

When both sources are anonymous, the AP, according to Mediaite, requires two sources for confirmation. Now, AP has fired a reporter who risked triggering WWIII with Polish missile misinformation.

Five days after the Associated Press referenced an anonymous 'senior US intelligence official' in a story claiming a Russian missile killed two Polish citizens, one of the two journalists behind the story was sacked.

The now-retracted report, which triggered a whole news cycle and included di...

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