Michelle Delio is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Wired News, InfoWorld, and MIT Technology Review. She has also written under her maiden name 'Michelle Finley'. It was alleged Delio may have made up 'color quotes' for some of her stories. Of 160 stories reviewed, 22 had problems with at least one source. No evidence was forthcoming to suggest the actual substance of the articles was skewed.
The incident began when Delio published an article at MIT Technology Review based on an interview with an anonymous insider at Hewlett-Packard who claimed the existence of a misogynistic attitude at the company towards then-CEO Carly Fiorina and female staff in general. After Hewlett-Packard challenged the author's sources, MIT Technology Review retracted the article. Wired News conducted an internal study, which determined that a number of Delio's secondary sources were unverifiable, but that her primary sources were legitimate.