Associated Press Fires Reporter Behind False Russian Missile Story

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Associated Press Fires Reporter Behind False Russian Missile Story​


PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 22, 2022

| BY CASSANDRA FAIRBANKS

The Associated Press has fired the reporter who was behind a debunked Russian missile story.​

The news wire had to issue a correction after “erroneously” reporting that Russian missiles killed two people in Poland earlier this month.

James LaPorta, the reporter behind the story, which relied on an “anonymous source,” was fired on Monday.

LaPorta’s report had cited “a senior American intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity” to claim that Russian missiles had crossed into Poland. In the correction, the news wire acknowledged that the missiles were “most likely fired by Ukraine.”

“In earlier versions of a story published November 15, 2022, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from a senior American intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity, that Russian missiles had crossed into Poland and killed two people. Subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack,” the correction, which was published last Monday, said.

Investigations by NATO and Poland have determined that it was a Ukrainian air defense missile.