The New York Times can’t keep playing the conspiracy card – The Post

The New York Times has, yet again, issued a humiliating correction. Earlier this week, the paper ran a story about a Michigan-based elections software company becoming a conspiracy theory target over supposed election falsehoods . One example was the claim that Konnech, the company in question, was improperly sharing voter data with China. Yet just 24 hours later, the CEO of Konnech was arrested after investigators found it had stored voter data&in China.

The follow-up story by Stuart Thompson, a technology reporter, prompted a correction to the original story, also by Thompson. After this article was published, the chief executive of Konnech was arrested in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers, the Times correction noted, with considerable, if understandable, understatement.

Among media insiders, New York Times corrections are a source of endless hilarity, almost a byword for journalistic haplessness.

via unherd.com