Boston Globe botches math in big Elizabeth Warren scoop on Native American ancestry

Published October 15, 2018 2:53pm ET



The Boston Globe issued a correction to its big scoop about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s possible Native American ancestry, showing that their math was off.

The correction note, appearing now at the bottom of the report, reveals that the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative is actually even lower than originally stated.

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