Millions downloaded ‘Caliphate,’ a 2018 ‘NY Times’ podcast that was based on a hoax — and the paper keeps downplaying its malpractice.

The New York Times finally apologized for false reporting on jihadism by Rukmini Callimachi, who “has a pattern of outsourcing much of her analysis to terrorologists such as those at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and its spinoffs.” But Callimachi was supplying what the NYT wanted.

An award-winning breathless New York Times podcast about Islamic Jihadism that was downloaded millions of times in 2018 turns out to have been based on a fraudulent liar — but so far the paper and its reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, have declined to fully acknowledge their error.