When This Blows Over

51. June 1, 2018
In a story about Trump tariffs, AP reported the dollar value of Virginia’s
farm and forestry exports to Canada and Mexico was $800. It’s
$800 million.
54. June 28, 2018
After a newsroom shooting, a newspaper reporter falsely tweeted that
the shooter “dropped his MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening
fire.”
81. July 21, 2019
An MSNBC contributor and law professor falsely tweets that Fox is not
going to show upcoming Congressional testimony by former Special
Counsel Robert Mueller on the Trump-Russia investigation. When the
error is pointed out, the contributor says she was just kidding and deletes
her tweet–but not before it has been “liked” and “retweeted” thousands
of times.
87. Sept. 16, 2019
The New York Times publishes an editor’s note about its
recent story recounting a newly-reported accusation about an incident
decades ago involving Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh.
The editor’s note discloses for the first time that the Times never spoke
to the alleged victim, and that the alleged victim had told friends she had
no recollection of any such event. The Times reporters explained that
that information had mistakenly been edited out of the story.