It is literally their core job to gather data/stories, fact check and publish things. To get one or more wrong is not inexcusable, but its close. They publishe

It is literally their core job to gather data/stories, fact check and publish things. To get one or more wrong is not inexcusable, but its close. They published at noon because its a big story that geta them clicks, and was crafted to put them in a better light than 'massive lack of basic oversight and fact checking' which sounds bad, because it is.