The Associated Press (AP) was slammed by people on X and received a community note after saying that a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany.
In a post on X, the AP shared an article with the title, “At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market in a suspected attack.”
“A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany,” the AP wrote in its post on X.
As Breitbart News’s Kurt Zindulka reported, a man, who is “reportedly from Saudi Arabia” drove a car through “a crowd of people at a Christmas market” in the city of Magdeburg.
The community notes for the AP’s post on X explains:
“A car has driven” implies the car drove itself, which is factually incorrect. A man from Saudi Arabia intentionally drove the car into the Christmas market as a terror attack.
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