Associated Press Fires Journalist Over Article Claiming Russian Missile Hit Poland: Reports

Aerial view taken on Nov. 17, 2022, shows the site where a missile strike killed two men in the eastern Poland village of Przewodow, near the border with war-ravaged Ukraine on Nov. 15, 2022. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images

The Associated Press newswire service has reportedly fired a journalist who cited an anonymous U.S. official’s incorrect claim that Russia fired a missile that struck Polish territory, killing two people on Nov. 16, according to numerous reports.

The Daily Beast was the first to report that investigative journalist and former U.S. marine James LaPorta was fired on Monday over the misleading anonymous claim, which was repeated widely by other outlets and cable news.