One form of fake news is to claim something happened when it never did. Another form of fake news is to claim something did not happen when in fact it actually did - especially when said claim is designed to cast aspersions on someone else. And if you're the New York Times, you can take this to an even higher level: You can report something that appears to cast aspersions on someone you don't like (aka "a Republican"), and then, when it comes to light that this something is actually not true and that the person who made the claim now looks like a total # for having said it, you simply delete the reference and pretend you never reported it.
