I checked their story[1] on the incident you mentioned, and the first paragraph is:
>Interviews and additional video footage have offered a fuller picture of what happened in this encounter, including the context that the Native American man approached the students amid broader tensions outside the Lincoln Memorial.
and then a link to an article from the very next day[2] explaining what happened in fuller detail after more videos came out.
I'm not sure what point you're making. Your observations are all consistent with the "overt falsehood followed by quiet retraction" claim. Are you quibbling about "days later" versus "day later" with respect to the retraction?
> I checked their story[1] on the incident you mentioned, and the first paragraph is:
> I checked their story[1] on the incident you mentioned, and the first paragraph is:
That was added later, hence the italics.