AP retracts fact-check article claiming JD Vance wrote about having sex with a couch in his 2016 memoir.

The Associated Press (AP) has removed a fact-check article claiming that JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, wrote about having sex with a couch in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. The article was published and then retracted within 24 hours, with the AP stating that it did not go through its standard editing process. The claim originated on social media and was not based on any true passages in Vance's book.