The radio story, "," was created by playwright Mike Daisey--it was an excerpt of a one-man show he had been staging at theaters around the country--and purported to tell the tale of his trip to China, where he visited the Foxconn factories that make Apple's iPhones and iPads among other electronic gadgets and supposedly documented poor working conditions there.

Daisey's piece, along with a series of similar stories in the , helped create a growing storm of criticism against Apple and Foxconn. Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was in an email to Apple employees but has said the company will in improving working conditions at its suppliers' factories.

The podcast version of the episode featuring Daisey's report was the most-downloaded in the show's history.

In his Friday blog post, Glass said Daisey had misled staffers during the fact-checking process. is an hourlong examination of how the piece made it to air; audio from the original story has been removed from the show's website.

said Daisey's interpreter disputed two significant facts in the piece--that he had met underage workers, and that a man with a mangled hand was injured making iPads at Foxconn. Daisey also misreported the number of factories he visited, the number of workers he spoke with, and the locations of certain events.