If my main character from a huge story was just charged with being a total fraud, I would probably not be doing numbered twitter threads spinning possibilities for how my mostly blind confirmation of his ID stacks up against a forthcoming, presumably public court proceeding.

I dunno. Some people think out loud on Twitter. Not my thing, but people use the medium differently.

'We told you 60% of the way into our massive story that we caught this source lying about some small stuff' is not a great defense imho when your source was just publicly charged in court with lying about everything. https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/1309621479303245827

Personally, if I was editing a story and got 60% of the way into the story, and then had to write an email that says, "Wait a minute: You caught your source lying?" I would be pretty pissed at the writer.

And then I would definitely not let that run with the part about catching the lies 60% into the story!

And then if the source was later charged publicly in court with being a total fraud, I would probably tell the writer to stop tweeting!

Just me, but again people have different methods. They do things differently.

To be fair, I don't know what's going on over there where people have different methods and also I have definitely been told to stop tweeting and didn't listen either.