LEDGER

WSJ publish time vs Coxon — 18 minutes 29 seconds

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.

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