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A Cringe-worthy Correction

October 12, 2010

A blog post by Amanda Hess on TBD the other day included a very unfortunate typo on a story about a Washington, D.C. campaign against AIDS (Via the Daily What, submitted without comment):

Correction:
This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men
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Lauren Kirchner is a freelance writer covering digital security for CJR. Find her on Twitter at @lkirchner