Britney Griner released 12-08-2022

DavidM said

The possibility it's accurate seems remote, to me, unless there are corroborating reports from other sources about what is being claimed.

The president addressed this early in the story's news cycle, so I guess I'm seeing it as public record of the highest possible source, in this case, against a single alleged report (the screenshot you found appears sourced from the Today show), made at a time that isn't clear (before or after the president's remarks) and corrected - when?

This report from the AP, which is consistent with other reporting, doesn't give an indication the family believed Whelan was offered for release, or that he will be released anytime soon.

https://apnews.com/article/brittney...nment-russia-bbf0c7e3029fea40d604b11fd271533f

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The archived page I found that I linked to in a different post there, not the screenshot, was from NBC News and it had the updated language at around noon CST with no acknowledgment. I'm unsure of the time the change was actually made but the acknowledgment wasn't added until about 3:00 p.m.
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I'm not intending to come off as believing the administration's lying here just based upon this thing and I absolutely agree that without the appearance of further corroborative reporting or evidence to indicate the original text was in fact correct there's not nearly enough there on its own to reasonably come to and stick with that conclusion.

Like I said, I just found it odd.. it's not 'oh sheet look at this they're forking lying to us' for me.. I'm just skeptical in general of politicians and politics as we all know there's a lot of lying and massaging of the truth that goes on all the time.. and this was a thing that when I kind of dug into it last night made me go "hmm, well that does sorta seem odd.. guess we'll just have to see if anything actually comes out" without actively looking at it as a big conspiracy.