On Monday, The New York Times issued one of the most obvious corrections in its history. In a hit piece on Campbell Brown’s role as head of Facebook’s news partnership operation, the Times labeled as a far-right conspiracy theory the fact that the Palestinian government pays the families of terrorists. According to Nellie Bowles of the Times, “Ms. Brown wants to use Facebook’s existing Watch product – a service introduced in 2017 as a premium product with more curation that has nonetheless been flooded with far-right conspiracy programming like ‘Palestinians Pay $400 Million Pensions For Terrorist Families.’”
This, of course, was not a conspiracy theory — Mahmoud Abbas has not only admitted as much, he has championed the practice. As Leil Liebovitz of Tablet writes:
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