There was a correction issued from the New York Times based on inaccurate reporting by Farnaz Fassihi. Abuse Watch never received any complaints related to Mr. Aghdashloo.
On October 24, 2020, the day after The New York Times article was published, The New York Times issued a correction to the article as the reporter “imprecisely paraphrased [a source’s] comments regarding the recipient of student complaints about Aydin Aghdashloo’s behavior.”