"Strange implicit epistemology, no? The twitter feed of NYT reporter is "original research" but the same author writing in NYT is writing ex cathedra" This is an important point.https://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1202008243469463558 …
A literal tweet - "I made up x in that story" from a reporter - that doesn't result in a retraction from NYT or any official acknowledgement in another "reliable source" means there's no grounds to remove the content of the story from a wikipedia page.