Since Sunday evening, we’ve been updating our article about a marr iage proposal in the new Spider-Man game to better reflect the dynamics and details of the situation. The ex-girlfriend in the story, who has been harassed in the fallout of the proposal’s coverage, denies dating the ex-boyfriend’s brother, a detail we share anew on our site to try to ward off further harassment.

W e recognize quite clearly what we could and should have done better in our coverage of this . The buck stops with me, and I’m sorry that in this instance we let our readers and the people we cover down .