diff --git a/src/extractor/generic/content/extract-clean-node.test.js b/src/extractor/generic/content/extract-clean-node.test.js
index f7bae528..e1a959ee 100644
--- a/src/extractor/generic/content/extract-clean-node.test.js
+++ b/src/extractor/generic/content/extract-clean-node.test.js
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ describe('extractCleanNode(article, $, { cleanConditionally })', () => {
     // console.log(result)
     // console.log(bestNode.html())
 
-    assert.equal($(bestNode).text().length, 3652)
+    assert.equal($(bestNode).text().length, 2687)
   })
 })
 
diff --git a/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.js b/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.js
index d043dd71..7263d9e6 100644
--- a/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.js
+++ b/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.js
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export default async function fetchResource(url) {
     url: parsedUrl,
     headers: REQUEST_HEADERS,
     timeout: FETCH_TIMEOUT,
+    encoding: null,
   }
 
   const { response, body } = await get(options)
diff --git a/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.test.js b/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.test.js
index dfaefee6..16347ba7 100644
--- a/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.test.js
+++ b/src/resource/utils/fetch-resource.test.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ describe('fetchResource(url)', () => {
     const url = 'http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/1786177057'
     const { body, response } = await fetchResource(url)
 
-    assert.equal(typeof body, 'string')
+    assert.equal(typeof body, 'object')
   })
 })