NY Times got fooled by a very obvious parody North Korea twitter account

[oberliner]

Here's the correction they issued:

Correction: July 4, 2017
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article attributed incorrectly a Twitter statement to the North Korean government. The North Korean government did not belittle a joint American-South Korean military exercise as “demonstrating near total ignorance of ballistic science,” that statement was from the DPRK News Service, a parody Twitter account.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-icbm.html

Here's the tweet they fell for:

Link to tweet

Look at some of the other tweets on that account - pretty insane that the NY Times couldn't tell it was a parody account.

"Because of an editing error" indeed.

[PoliticAverse]

1. "The truth is hard"...

[FM123]

2. This kind of carelessness is exactly the kind of ammunition that Idiot Trump likes

to use against the press as examples of everybody but Fox News is fake news. Pay careful attention, Print Media, we need you now more than ever!

[John1956PA]

3. +1 n/t

[oberliner]

4. Yep

And this happens across the board. Sloppy mistakes like this because everyone wants to "publish" so quickly.

[Not Ruth]

5. Got fooled suggests that the Twitter account was attempting to fool followers

I do not believe that they were trying to fool anyone.

[oberliner]

6. Tbe twitter account is called DPRK News Service

And in its description it says:

Official News feed of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea

[Not Ruth]

7. I think that it is obvious what it is

Then again I spend an unholy amount of time reading tweets.

Link to tweet

[oberliner]

9. I think so too

But they do pretend to be legit - and don't self-identify as a parody account, as many parody accounts do.

[flamingdem]

8. They need to cough up and hire some more people

Cheapos!

- ex nyt worker bee