{"id":33318,"date":"2017-06-29T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33318"},"modified":"2017-06-29T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:24:08","slug":"vice-retracts-articles-about-donald-trump-animatronic-robot-at-disney-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/dna\/vice-retracts-articles-about-donald-trump-animatronic-robot-at-disney-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Vice Retracts Articles About Donald Trump Animatronic Robot at Disney World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Vice Retracts Articles About Donald Trump Animatronic Robot at Disney World<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Vice Media\u2019s Motherboard tech site has retracted two articles \u2014 supposedly revealing discord at Disney Parks about Donald Trump\u2019s presence in the Hall of Presidents attraction \u2014 citing factual errors and questions about sourcing for the pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cAfter a thorough investigation into the sourcing of two stories, \u2018Here\u2019s the Secret Backstage Trump Drama at Walt Disney World\u2019s Hall of Presidents\u2019 and \u2018Behind the Scenes of Disney\u2019s Donald Trump \u201cHall of Presidents\u201d Installation,\u2019 and the identification of several factual errors, we have decided to retract both pieces,\u201d Motherboard said in an editorial note posted Wednesday in place of the two articles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The note added, \u201cWe are conducting a full editorial review to pinpoint how this source was vetted, and how these stories were approved and published in violation of our usual editorial workflow. We fell short of our standards, and regret the error.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Motherboard story published on Monday, June 26, alleged that there was internal debate at Disney about whether Trump\u2019s animatronic figure would be speaking in the exhibit. The story also claimed, citing an anonymous source, that Trump\u2019s team was insisting on writing the entire speech for his robotic avatar in Disney World\u2019s Hall of Presidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">That led Disney Parks to issue a statement that Trump will in fact be represented in the Hall of Presidents with a speaking role. The earlier Motherboard story, \u201cHere\u2019s the Secret Backstage Trump Drama at Walt Disney World\u2019s Hall of Presidents,\u201d published May 19, had cited an anonymous source \u201cclose to Walt Disney Imagineering\u201d who claimed the animatronic Trump \u201cwill probably not have a speaking role.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/vice-retracts-donald-trump-animatronic-disney-world-1202481218\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/dna\/vice-retracts-articles-about-donald-trump-animatronic-robot-at-disney-world.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Retracts Articles About Donald Trump Animatronic Robot at Disney World Vice Media\u2019s Motherboard tech site has retracted two articles \u2014 supposedly revealing discord at Disney Parks about Donald Trump\u2019s presence in the Hall of Presidents attraction \u2014 citing factual errors and questions about sourcing for the pieces. \u201cAfter a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12983],"tags":[138,837,20533,20532],"class_list":["post-33318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dna","tag-disney","tag-donald-trump","tag-vice-media","tag-vice-retracts-articles-about-donald-trump-animatronic-robot-at-disney-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}