The blunder: Nearly starting WWIII
A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack between journ*lists at the Associated Press resulted in an erroneous report last week that appeared momentarily to bring tensions between NATO and Russia to their highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Last Tuesday, AP posted a news alert saying that a “senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people,” and noting that leaders in Poland were “holding an emergency meeting due to a ‘crisis situation.’”
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Wikipedia is proof that even if history is written by the victors the ones putting it on paper are definitely losers.
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