• A review of Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work, an account by Sarah Wynn-Williams of her time at Facebook, refers to a trip to Japan to meet Shinzo Abe where her boss Sheryl Sandberg was said to have “tears streaming down her face”. In fact, this description in the book referred not to Sandberg but to someone else (“A former disciple unfriends Facebook”, 16 March, New Review, p36).
• An image accompanying a Switzerland travel piece (“Scenic route”, 16 March, Magazine, p34) was said to be of Sion Cathedral, described in the article as offering views over the city. In fact, the picture showed Sion’s hilltop Valère Basilica, which was the church the writer had visited. Also, the botanical gardens on the Brissago Islands are not the only ones in the country.
• It was not Fraser Brown who missed the ball before Louis Bielle-Biarrey’s try in the Six Nations’ France v Scotland match, but Darcy Graham (“Paris finally gets its coronation after French survive a scare”, 16 March, Sport, p7, later editions).
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