This has increasingly been the M.O. of all the "activist" media outlets in the US for the past 5 years. Issue exaggerated if not outright fraudulent explosive headlines and articles - Russian Pee tapes, bounties on American troops, Capital police officers bludgeoned to death by rabid mobs, etc. - then months later, quietly issue a "correction" on page 10, long after the false narrative has been thoroughly disseminated into the public's version of reality.

And if that wasn't shady enough, in the days of online content, these outlets often don't even bother with admitting they were wrong. They simply edit the original stories - silently and without public notice - and pretend it was never written in the first place.

The NY Times was caught red-handed doing this with their 1619 content several times already.