Thirty minutes later the AP retracted the story.

FORBES: It's Ten O'clock: Do You Know Where Your Brand Is?

Thanks to the director Marco Tullio Giordana, we are granted access to the Caratis, a fictional Roman clan, whose story, starting in 1966, covers more than thirty years and shows in two blocks of three hours.

NEWYORKER: The Best of Youth

They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

NEWYORKER: Ghosts

"Zero Dark Thirty" fictionalized some events and people to keep the story moving as well as to keep sources and U.S. operations safe.

WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Thirty years ago, after battling a tough libel suit (our story was right, but we had needlessly given our adversaries openings), we made one of our happiest and most fruitful decisions--to retain Tennyson Schad as FORBES magazine's libel lawyer.

FORBES: Fact and Comment