Apparently a single AP reporter had enough power to singlehandedly convince most of the world that Russia had fired two missiles into a NATO country, nearly drawing NATO into an Article 5 war against Russia?

James LaPorta is like the Stanislav Petrov of Bizarro World: instead of singlehandedly preventing a nuclear holocaust, he almost singlehandedly caused one.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ap-fires-reporter-behind-retracted-russian-missiles-story