For Washington Post’s Feared ‘Pinocchio’ Fact Checker, Forthrightness Dies in ‘Updates’ to Biden-Burisma Story

A building on Ryljejeva street listed for Esco-Pivnich, part of Burisma Group, a Ukrainian gas company, stands in Kiev, Ukraine, on Oct. 1, 2019. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

News Analysis

For the second time in three years, the Washington Post has quietly “updated” one of the most consequential fact checks in the history of American politics—its October 2020 article undercutting reports that Hunter Biden arranged a dinner meeting between one of his foreign business clients and his father, who was then vice president of the United States.