On Friday This American Life, a popular public radio show show, announced a retraction after details about a story on Apple factory abuse in China turned out to be full of fabrications.
In January, the show, hosted by Ira Glass, broadcast a story narrated by performance artist and monologuist Mike Daisey. Details about armed factory guards, underage factory workers, and poisoning by chemicals like n-hexane led to even sharper outcry against conditions at factories operated by Foxconn, Apple’s largest supplier of electronics. Within weeks after the January broadcast, the maker of the iPads and iPhones allowed journalists to visit assembly lines in China, joined the Fair Labor Association, released a list of suppliers and announced that it would audit the conditions of factories within its supply chain.
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