New York Times audio producer Andy Mills announced his resignation on Friday He was one of the high-profile names who worked on the Caliphate podcast The Times was forced to retract much of the story on which the popular podcast was based after being tricked by an ISIS wannabe Yet Mills said he is resigning due to the claims of workplace harassment that resurfaced following Caliphate's embarrassing errors He admitted to 'past mistakes' while working at WNYC but said they have been added to with 'gross exaggerations and baseless claims' ''I have been transformed into a symbol of larger societal evils,' Mills wrote