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When did David Icke try to pass a gun range in Kentucky off as Syria?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/business/media/turkey-syr...

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When did David Icke issue a correction?

What does David Icke have to correct?

2 random examples that would be useful corrections from him:

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion aren't a legitimate historical document laying out a plan for world domination"

"No world leaders are human/shapeshifting-alien hybrids"

In that case, "The Weekly World News" has a lot of corrections to issue.

So you've admitted that Icke and The Weekly World News are comparable and not like ABC News.

I admit that I don't live in bizzaro world--where some crazy old man's conspiracy theories must be suppressed, while multi-billion-dollar corporations that deceive broadly, frequently, and incompetently are the "good guys."

"But, BUT, we retracted!" After they were caught...

It was incompetence that they then corrected. Should the whole company be disbanded for a few employees' corrected mistake?

Meanwhile, crazy old man has never retracted any of his conspiracy theories, instead repeating them over and over. One is a reliable source of information, and the other is a reliable source of misinformation.

How about the video from the article for starters? ABC issued a correction for the video from your article.

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