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?  

Maybe a little thing called investigative journalism.