Monday, February 24, 2014

Upworthy Does a Correction On The McDonald's Chicken McNuggets Video

I hope they know their hipster irony is just precious.
Still, kudos for trying to do stuff that journalists do.
From Upworthy:

CORRECTION: That Time We Let Pretend Science Ruin Real Science And Decided To Apologize For It
FROM THE EDITORS: Hey everyone. So a video made it onto our site that put Chicken McNuggets under a microscope. It had some problems (there's a link at the bottom of the page if you REALLY need to see it.) You let us know. Rather than explain the problems ourselves, we're going to let all our brilliant commenters do it for us....




Part of what makes this an amazing place to work is how careful we are to deliver only the highest-quality content for you to share, not the fluff that usually gets passed around. We have a very cohesive and well-implemented vetting and fact-checking process at Upworthy. Editors look at content before it's curated for our site. Our trained fact-checking team investigates finalized content before we publish it for public consumption. 
Yet somehow, ALL of us totally blew it on this one. We'd like to let you all know that we are collectively really really sorry. This was not our best show. You deserve better than that, and we really appreciate the fact that so many of you brought it to our attention....MORE
For the record, here's how you do a 'Regret the error' .gif:

When a journalist accidently misquotes a source