Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday:
Hello,
We recently learned that a freelance contributor misrepresented their identity in two first-person essays written for Business Insider. As soon as this came to light, we took down the essays and began an investigation.
As part of this process, we’ve removed additional first-person essays from the site due to concerns about the authors’ identity or veracity. No news articles or videos were found to have this issue.
We’ve bolstered our verification protocols to help prevent anything like this from happening again. We care deeply about the integrity of our work, and we will always do what it takes to make things right.
