The admission they were lying was posted over an hour after the original tweet. Probably banking on that tried and true "Posting your article revisions on the 4th page of the next days paper to no fanfare and hoping nobody sees it."

E) Additionally, and I don't know if this is intentional, but if you are viewing that tweet without an account or nitter you literally can't see the replies, so you wouldn't see them saying it's not true. Rare occasion where community notes feature is a force for good