《美國人的生活》收回了一段關於富士康iPad工廠內工作條件的插曲，稱素材“部分捏造”。這段插曲是好未來歷史上最受歡迎的，有近百萬條流，部分改編自藝術家邁克·戴西的作品，他顯然向核查人員隱瞞了他參觀富士康工廠的經歷。一些謊言是在採訪戴西的中文翻譯時發現的，他對節目和廣播中的事實提出了質疑。

今天晚些時候播出了美國生活的一個新插曲，詳細描述了這些問題和發生的事情，週日還播放了MP3。主持人IraGlass對這個錯誤承擔全部責任，他說他“對把這樣的事情放進公共電臺感到震驚”

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，他似乎一點也不後悔，他在部落格上發表宣告說，他的作品“不是新聞”，與《美國生活》這樣的節目“在不同的規則和期望下運作”。

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***.

幾個月來，我們在蘋果公司的訊息人士一直告訴我們，公司認為戴西不值得信任，而這些懷疑似乎已經得到證實。

《美國生活》雜誌發表的宣告詳細描述了戴西一些更離奇的捏造，比如他在表演中討論的工廠地點問題：

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.

顯然，戴西作品中一個更具戲劇性的瞬間——他講述了一個工人的手在iPad生產過程中受損的故事——顯然是完全錯誤的：

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.

羅伯施密茨，市場作家誰發現了戴西的一些捏造，面對錶演藝術家的差異，他發現旁邊愛爾蘭共和軍玻璃。在廣播中的一次交流中，戴西直截了當地承認對自己作品的具體部分撒謊，聲稱這樣做是為了“講述一個故事，記錄了他（中國）之行的全部內容”