I think it's not correct. I also think it wasn't correct to deliberately spread a false story about President Trump disrespecting marines, but social media sites didn't take the same precautions with that story.
The story was independently verified by pretty much all media sources when followed up by their own journalists
Indeed. If the NYP allows other organizations to review and fact check the primary documents themselves, I'll start to think there's something to this. Otherwise, all I see is that known Trump associates provided info of unknown providence and accuracy to a former Fox News employee now working as a journalist at a Murdoch owned known unreliable news source.
That “independently verified” part was that they talked with the same source and were told the same thing.