On Sunday, multiple outlets reported that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, visited Iraq to get firsthand reports from U.S. commanders on the progress of the battle against the Islamic State. Among the news organizations that covered the story was Reuters, which published their version online on Sunday, but then suddenly retracted the story around 3 a.m. Monday morning, issuing an “advisory” saying the story was “wrong” and “withdrawn.”
Was it fake news? Well, not exactly. Reuters published a “substitute story,” which is similar but with some revisions; however, the news agency’s handling of the retraction/non-retraction raised some eyebrows.
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