There has been some recent discussion around here how trustworthy media outlets are, like this piece: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-lies. Also perhaps interesting to some, this recent article: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/markets-in-fact-checking

This market is another idea for how to incentivize crowd fact-checking. Asking about lies arguably would require knowing they were intentional, so this Quadratic Funding market is just about the New York Times making incorrect statements. Following the lead of @ScottAlexander, I will take a narrow definition of things, so not including:

-          Lack of context

-          Reasonable-ish judgment calls

-          Sloppy reasoning

-          Op-eds

All examples should be between January and March 2023 (inclusive) and published under nytimes.com.

As far as I understand things, I can’t moderate submissions to actually be examples of incorrect statements as defined above. So don’t take the answers below too seriously. Also, I’m not sure how people ‘ought’ to fund different examples, but I’m assuming people will contribute according to some combination of importance and scandalousness. Presumably, answering with some minor detail the Times wrote a correction about wouldn’t be very interesting.