The article byline indicates 08 May 2025 but response header shows Last-Modified: Fri, 09 May 2025 13:39:02 GMT and the earliest entry in the Internet Archive is Fri, 09 May 2025 12:28:01 GMT.
The white smoke emerged from the Vatican Thu, 08 May 2025 16:07 GMT and Pope Leo XIV was announced shortly thereafter.
Posted at Thu, 08 May 2025 08:24:51 GMT according to https://trevorfox.com/linkedin-post-date-extractor.html
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giuseppe-beppe-soda-414749b0_...
It’s notable, of course, that Robert Prevost was highlighted in this post but left off of many other lists of papal candidates.
Leonardo Rizzo, one of the researchers, claimed on X.com that they published before the Pope was elected.
An X user commented:
> “Guessed” after the fact. Interesting nonetheless and worth sharing before the event next time!
Rizzo replied:
> Thanks a lot! We shared it the 8th morning on linkedin, the university website and few other sources (italian press). Next time I’ll also share it on X
https://x.com/LnrdRizzo/status/1920841806096343409
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/universita-bocconi_a-new-way-...
One explanation:
There’s a “Research” heading at the bottom that links to an article from today: “The Long Hand of Brussels on U.S. Businesses”, 09 May 2025 by Barbara Orlando.
Maybe they have a static site generator or even dynamic with caching that piled this in?