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NY Times Deletes Story About Cops Discovering Watermelons on Mars
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thewrap.comFuturism, which first reported the story, the article disappeared within an hour of appearing on the Times’ website. It was replaced by a message reading, “This article was published in error.”A New York Times spokesperson offered additional clarification in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, a mock article intended for a testing system was published on our site in error.
The article has since been removed.”In other words, the article appeared on the Times’ website as part of an online internal test that was mistakenly made public.
Suffice to say, there are no watermelons — or any other form of life, that we know of — on Mars.The snafu came amid an already chaotic day at the newspaper.
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