NY Times Updates Article That Claimed “Conspiracy Theory” Against Election Software Company After Charges Announced

The New York Times has added an editor’s note to an article it published on Oct. 3 claiming that allegations against a Michigan-based election software company were a “conspiracy theory.”

One day later, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon announced charges against the CEO of Konnech, the company, for allegedly stealing and storing election worker data on servers in China.

“After this article was published, the chief executive of Konnech, Eugene Yu, was arrested in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers,” the New York Times’ note says.

“In communications with The Times for this article, neither Mr. Yu nor a spokesman for Konnech said that the company was the subject of an investigation. They also asserted that all the company’s data was stored on servers in the United States; prosecutors in Los Angeles, who brought the charges against Mr. Yu, said that they had found some company data stored on servers in China. The Times is continuing to report on this story,” it added.

A New York Times spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Stuart A. Thompson, a New York Times reporter who says he focuses on misinformation and disinformation, penned the Oct. 3 article as well as an article on the charges against Konnech.

In the former, Thompson claimed that an election integrity group, True the Vote, and others had “threadbare evidence, or none at all,” against Konnech.

He opined that the allegations “demonstrate how far-right election deniers are also giving more attention to new and more secondary companies and groups.”

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