There is an opposite force here also, as Apple and Foxcom have hired PR to spin the retraction to maximum advantage. However, as SumOfUs quoted: The most important thing to know is that Daisey is just one of literally dozens of sources who’ve investigated and reported on serious violations of workers’ rights at Apple suppliers. And as This American Life producer Ira Glass said on this weekend’s show: [I]n factchecking, our main concern was whether the things Mike says about Apple and about its supplier Foxconn, which makes this stuff, were true. That stuff is true. It’s been corroborated by independent investigations by other journalists, studies by advocacy groups, and much of it has been corroborated by Apple itself in its own audit reports. But what's not true is what Mike said about his own trip to China.