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The Chinese spy balloon was in fact, not spying.
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Here we go. This is the "retraction" they do 6 months after flooding the headlines with bullshit, this way they can say that they "correct themselves" and are therefore unbiased.
Of course, even this headline is still implying it is a "spy balloon" so they can technically correct wrong information they put out while also knowing that 90% of their audience will never read it, but will believe them when they say they are "unbiased" for correcting themselves.
I can't imagine how anyone with a soul and brain could be a western journalist at this point, you must be lacking one of those two things. They're shadier and more dishonest than lawyers.