WSJ publish time vs Coxon — 18 minutes 29 seconds
Claim (Thayer): the Wall Street Journal had the story framed ~18 minutes before Coxon’s public resignation post.
Verdict: CONFIRMED on first-publish metadata.
| Event | UTC |
|---|---|
WSJ datePublished |
2026-09-08 23:46:00Z |
Coxon root 2097476196791709843 |
2026-09-09 00:04:29Z |
| Δ | 18 min 29 s (WSJ first) |
Source: Wayback Machine capture of the article — schema.org / article.published meta agree. A later dateLastPubbed ~00:22Z is an edit stamp, not first publish — don’t use it as T0.