A much-talked-about New York Times Magazine story about Reddit results in a correction that’s all about Twitter and BuzzFeed:
An article on Sunday about a rumor that went viral in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing misstated the time that a reporter for BuzzFeed, Erik Malinowski, sent his first tweet about the takedown of the Facebook page dedicated to finding Sunil Tripathi, a missing student who was erroneously believed to be a suspect. It was sent at 3 a.m., not at midnight. (He was in the Pacific time zone when he sent it.) The article also misstated which of his tweets on the topic was retweeted by roughly 300 Twitter users. It was his second tweet, not his first. And the article misstated the number of Twitter followers of Andrew Kaczynski, another BuzzFeed journalist. At the time Kaczynski had 81,000 followers, not 90,000. (He now has 93,000 followers.)
Here’s a piece Malinowski wrote about the error.
