This was a fairly stunning correction by The New York Times considering the subject of the Nellie Bowles article it accompanied was about Facebook’s hiring of former CNN talking head Campbell Brown to tackle news-related issues for the social media company.
Correction: April 23, 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. 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.
Apparently Ms. Bowles could use a refresher about cognitive bias.