How the Washington post handles it's obits

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Fake news?

  Wapo calls terrorist "austere religious scholar"  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/28/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-washington-post-austere-headline/2483340001/

  From WSJ;  The original Sunday morning headline on the Post’s website said: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
On social media a wave of satirical headlines soon followed with various Twitter users pretending to announce the passing of the noted vegetarian Adolf Hitler, among other historical figures.'