“Exactly! Who thinks this was a mistake?”
I sure hope no here thinks that, since that is EXACTLY how they win. There were likely 20 people IN THEIR STUDIO (and hundreds more with direct phone access to them) that saw the word ‘released’, did none of them notice? Really?
Reminds me of early in the Ukraine War when hundreds of Azovs surrendered to the Russians after being trapped underground in a large factory complex, for weeks. The media, pretty much all of them said they “evacuated” the complex.
They like to f with us, because THEY have the power to do just that.
I’m not sure if it is deliberate, or just the Peter Principle at work for people who would probably accept the phrase “I understandify what you saying, bro” as normal conversational English.