Someone at the wire service fact-checked the claim and declared in a headline on Wednesday: “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch.”
The oddly blunt headline was screen-captured by MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas and others, but was no longer on the AP’s site by Thursday morning.
A representative for the AP spoke to Semafor reporter Max Tani, who reports that the initial story “didn’t go through the wire service’s standard editing process,” and that the organization was “looking into” how the piece even got published.
When you get fact-checked on that, you have a problem.π