Reported hijab attack on an 11-year-old girl did not happen - Fake News?

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CosmicSex said:

irstupid said:

False police reports are not fake news, but when the news uses a false police report as proof to run a story on rampant islamaphobia sweeping the nation, then it is fake news.

I think I'm missing something here.  How is the news supposed to know which police reports are true and which are false?  

The problem is that before we had any confirmation the story exploded and reached headlines around the world. That shouldn’t happen. Irresponsible journalism is insanely dangerous