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New York Times says Caliphate podcast on ISIS didn t meet its standards but issues no retraction
Elahe Izadi and Paul Farhi, The Washington Post
Dec. 18, 2020
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The New York Times acknowledged Friday that a celebrated podcast that featured a would-be Islamic State terrorist s account of committing atrocities in Syria could not be substantiated, completing a spectacular journalistic fall for the award-winning series and its primary reporter.
In several episodes of Caliphate, a Canadian man named Shehroze Chaudhry hauntingly described barbaric acts that included executing two hostages in Syria in 2014.
But after a nearly three-month review, the Times concluded that the podcast, co-hosted by reporter Rukmini Callimachi and audio producer Andy Mills, did not meet our standards for accuracy, according to an editor s note now attached to the series.