Dismissal of Associated Press reporter for false report about missile fall in Poland.
The “Associated Press” news agency fired the reporter of this news agency for publishing a false report about the rocket explosion incident in Poland.
The Associated Press fired one of its investigative reporters on Monday for reporting false information about last week’s missile crash in eastern Poland during the Russia-Ukraine war.
According to “Anatolia” news agency, “James Laporta”, a 32-year-old reporter of the Associated Press news agency, wrote in a report that two people were killed due to the arrival of “Russian missiles” on the territory of Poland, a member of the NATO military alliance, and their impact on an area near the border with Ukrainians have been killed. The “Daily Beast” newspaper reported that the Associated Press fired Laporta after publishing this report.
The Associated Press news agency wrote in an urgent news after the explosion in a village in Poland, an American intelligence official said, this explosion occurred as a result of missiles fired by Russia.
That report, which relied only on an anonymous source, ended up being wrong, and this news outlet subsequently published amendments to this report.
In an amendment published by the Associated Press, it was written: “In the initial versions of a report dated November 15, 2022, the Associated Press falsely reported that Russian missiles entered They invaded Poland and killed two people. Later reports showed that these missiles were only made by Russia, and the most likely thing is that Ukraine fired them in defense against a Russian attack.
LaPorta’s report was published while only citing “a senior American intelligence official” that according to the law of this news agency, “searching for more than one source is required when news sources are anonymous.”
In response to this incident, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it did not launch any attack within 35 kilometers of the Polish border.
