Just one paragraph? I understand why that feels like an indicator of LLM use these days, but that actually sounds like a fairly common mistake human writers might make. Author decides to move a topic to a different section, copies it and rewords to suite new placement and forgets to remove the section from it's original spot. A pro shouldn't be making that kind of mistake, but it's a particularly difficult one to spot in reviewing the article. It's an error that is especially difficult to spot if you're the author because of your own familiarity with the article. The only effective way I found to combat those kinds of mistakes in my writing was to delay my own review of my writing (sometimes as long as a day or two) after significant writing or edits. Clearly that strategy is unworkable in a fast paced journalism setting, where that kind of space between writing and editing cannot meet deadlines.

This would look a lot different than the similar AI slop tell I see in news articles that repeat the headline across multiple paragraphs in a row with different wording and no new details or clarifications. I don't see any of this in the article. I could not find the repeated paragraphs that you're talking about. Calling back to previous points in an essay with various subsections, even repeating important points and details is often just good writing.