Funnily enough, I complained to Atlas Obscura a couple years back about a story they ran that included a bunch of statistics which were mathematically inconsist

Funnily enough, I complained to Atlas Obscura a couple years back about a story they ran that included a bunch of statistics which were mathematically inconsistent with each other. I get that english majors don't like math :) but these numbers were so central to the story that you'd think any fact checker who had the story to review would have pulled out a calculator and checked them (if not actually review the sources of the numbers). I got an email reply from Patel (who is mentioned in the Walrus story) about 3-4 weeks after my initial complaint, acknowledging the issue and saying that they'd issued a correction. In the editorial comment that they'd added to the story along with the corrections, they understated the issue that I reported, but they had fixed all of the numbers. Of course, fixing stories 3-4 weeks after publishing means that only the fictional long tail will benefit.