I love all this investigating and interviewing. 2023 baby. You can't just make something up and get away with it anymore.
Even so, it was seen by literally millions before the truth came out, and the vast majority of those will not see the correction. That narrative is set in their minds, added to the other false narratives that were spread over the years. IINM, ALL the news stories I saw about this so far mentioned previous times Hareidim not sitting next to women caused delays, specifying the famous incident that caused a big tech company to threaten to boycott El Al - when that delay was for all of 5 minutes, and the actual flight delay was for unrelated reasons.