This whole thing is so insidious. These were the people making these claims, and now that others have debunked them, they pretend to have been the ones debunking them themselves. They act like these claims just popped out of the ether, like all claims about the west's enemies when they are proven to be lies. They pretend to act with "integrity" by correcting the record, but they always pretend that they aren't the ones responsible for the lies in the first place and that they just happened. I'm so fucking sick of how the western media operates.