The Washington Post's correction to a January report about a phone call between former President Donald Trump and Georgia's top elections investigator has sparked a furious debate online about whether the false information influenced the outcome of the state's Senate runoff elections.
The Post's original story, released just days before the January 5 runoffs, reported that Trump told the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State's office during a call to "find the fraud" and that she would be "a national hero" if she did so. On Thursday, the newspaper released a 129-word correction to the story after the Wall Street Journal released a recording of the December call.
"Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump's December phone call with the state's top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call, based on information provided by a source," the correction read.
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