What The Wire was passing off as 'Instagram' dashboard turned out to be a free trial Workspace account created on 13 October, much after the stories were published in the propaganda site.
Facebook uses Microsoft's email services. The Wire tried to use the service provider to 'verify' details about one of their clients, quite likely without their consent and it seems, Microsoft's Ujjwal Kumar agreed.
Frustrated with another hitjob against their company, Meta's Chief Information Security Officer had to come out and clear the air that The Wire's entire reporting is fabricated and based on forged documents.