The New York Times (NYT) embarrassingly contradicted its own fact check on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the weekend within a single paragraph.
RFK Jr., who last week was appointed to Donald Trump’s cabinet as Secretary for Health and Human Services, was the focus of a NYT article titled, “Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Alienate His New G.O.P. Allies.” It largely focused on the former presidential candidate’s ambitions to Make America Healthy Again, specifically his war on processed food.
The NYT took issue with Kennedy’s remarks about Froot Loops, where he highlighted the differences between the cereal in the U.S. and Canada. He asked, “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada and it has two or three?” in an interview with MSNBC.
The article claiming Kennedy was “was wrong on the ingredient count” while deliberately ignoring the essence of his claim that American food is overly processed compared to its Canadian counterpart.
Then, within the same paragraph, the Times hilariously admits that “But the Canadian version does have natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used ‘for freshness,’ according to the ingredient label.”
Many on social media ridiculed the NYT for the fumbled fact check.
The NYT has since updated their piece, blaming an “editing error.”
The story now reads as follows, post-update:
