The Wire's 'apology' is more of an exercise of getting patted on back for 'owning up' on lapses instead of apologising to those it falsely accused and targeted over fabricated evidence.
Along with Devesh Kumar, Ayushman Kaul, who is currently with London based Logically.ai, which offers services of doxxing amongst others, co-authored TekFog absurdity and was also part of Meta controversy
It seems WhatsApp messages where it is claimed that a privacy researcher has endorsed The Wire story on Meta has been making rounds. The Wire story has been proved beyond doubts now that it was based on fabricated 'evidences' that played right into confirmation bias.