New York Times Launches Leak Investigation Over Report on Its Israel-Gaza Coverage (www.vanityfair.com)

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Vanity Fair. Follow-up from this morning's post: The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé from The Intercept

The sharks smell blood in the water.

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[-] buttwater@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Am I reading this right...

NYT posts sensational/false weaponized sexual violence article sometime between October-December.

NYT is going to post a follow-up article, but faces crisis of either repeating false claims or downplaying how much sexual violence occurred, essentially admitting they lied earlier. This internal debate gets leaked to The Intercept

NYT conducts "witch hunt" interviews of staff to find who leaked to The Intercept.

That's how I read it. What I want to know, that this article didn't cover, is: where did the original bad reporting come from and why did it get published?