《美国人的生活》收回了一段关于富士康iPad工厂内工作条件的插曲，称素材“部分捏造”。这段插曲是好未来历史上最受欢迎的，有近百万条流，部分改编自艺术家迈克·戴西的作品，他显然向核查人员隐瞒了他参观富士康工厂的经历。一些谎言是在采访戴西的中文翻译时发现的，他对节目和广播中的事实提出了质疑。

今天晚些时候播出了美国生活的一个新插曲，详细描述了这些问题和发生的事情，周日还播放了MP3。主持人IraGlass对这个错误承担全部责任，他说他“对把这样的事情放进公共电台感到震惊”

Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.

就戴西而言，他似乎一点也不后悔，他在博客上发表声明说，他的作品“不是新闻”，与《美国生活》这样的节目“在不同的规则和期望下运作”。

What I do is not journali**. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journali**. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic ­- not a theatrical ­- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectati***.

几个月来，我们在苹果公司的消息人士一直告诉我们，公司认为戴西不值得信任，而这些怀疑似乎已经得到证实。

《美国生活》杂志发表的声明详细描述了戴西一些更离奇的捏造，比如他在表演中讨论的工厂地点问题：

In his monologue he claims to have met a group of workers who were poisoned on an iPhone assembly line by a chemical called n-hexane. Apple's audits of its suppliers show that an incident like this occurred in a factory in China, but the factory wasn't located in Shenzhen, where Daisey visited.

"It happened nearly a thousand miles away, in a city called Suzhou," Marketplace's Schmitz says in his report. "I've interviewed these workers, so I knew the story. And when I heard Daisey's monologue on the radio, I wondered: How'd they get all the way down to Shenzhen? It seemed crazy, that somehow Daisey could've met a few of them during his trip."

In Schmitz's report, he confronts Daisey and Daisey admits to fabricating these characters.

显然，戴西作品中一个更具戏剧性的瞬间——他讲述了一个工人的手在iPad生产过程中受损的故事——显然是完全错误的：

Daisey's interpreter Cathy also disputes two of the most dramatic moments in Daisey's story: that he met underage workers at Foxconn, and that a man with a mangled hand was injured at Foxconn making iPads (and that Daisey's iPad was the first one he ever saw in operation). Daisey says in his monologue:

He's never actually seen one on, this thing that took his hand. I turn it on, unlock the screen, and pass it to him. He takes it. The ic*** flare into view, and he strokes the screen with his ruined hand, and the ic*** slide back and forth. And he says something to Cathy, and Cathy says, "he says it's a kind of magic."

Cathy Lee tells Schmitz that nothing of the sort occurred.

罗伯施密茨，市场作家谁发现了戴西的一些捏造，面对表演艺术家的差异，他发现旁边爱尔兰共和军玻璃。在广播中的一次交流中，戴西直截了当地承认对自己作品的具体部分撒谎，声称这样做是为了“讲述一个故事，记录了他（中国）之行的全部内容”