The New York Times ironically had to issue their own long correction on a piece about “fake news” that was published Saturday.
The article, authored by Nellie Bowles, asked, “Is Facebook’s Campbell Brown a Force to Be Reckoned With? Or Is She Fake News?”
Campbell Brown serves as Facebook’s liaison between the social media network and the news media, but the NYT piece questioned how much power she really has within the company and seemed to diminish her former role as a TV journalist.
Interestingly enough, while exploring whether or not Ms. Brown is “fake news,” Bowles managed to insert her own fake news into the piece. A long correction at the bottom of the article indicates that an earlier version of the piece dismissed Palestinian officials giving pensions to the families of anti-Israeli terrorists as a “far-right conspiracy theory.”
Screen Shot NYT Correction on Campbell Brown piece (April 24, 2018)
“An earlier version of this article erroneously included a reference to Palestinian actions as an example of the sort of far-right conspiracy stories that have plagued Facebook,” the correction reads. “In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.”
Wow. This NYT correction. It’s attached to a story about Facebook’s Campbell Brown and the problem of “far-right [conspiracies]” on social media.https://t.co/3tLSTnWKRF
(h/t @AmbDaniDayan) pic.twitter.com/V9IWCY1Emy
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 24, 2018
Amazing. Basically all NYT stories on Israel and Judaism are incomplete until the correction is posted https://t.co/OevgQ9CLcF
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 24, 2018
Correction of the Year. @nytimes #paytoslay pic.twitter.com/xjCIY1Rz7q
— Dani Dayan (@AmbDaniDayan) April 24, 2018
Abbas admits the practice, but a New York Times reporter denies it.https://t.co/w1UMuY2Er6
— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) April 23, 2018