UVA Rape on Campus

💩 Rolling Stone published "A Rape on Campus" that was later completely debunked, and they lost a lawsuit over.

💩 Rolling Stone published "A Rape on Campus" that describes a purported gang rape of Jackie Coakley by 7 frat brothers (Phi Kappa Psi) at the University of Virginia (UVA), as part of an initiation rite. This fed a false "Campus Rape" lynch-mob that suspended the fraternity, vandalized their FratHouse, and impugned the character of many innocents: who sued and won.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-01-28

💩 Rolling Stone magazine published "A Rape on Campus" that describes a purported gang rape of Jackie Coakley by 7 frat brothers (Phi Kappa Psi) at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, as part of an initiation rite. This fed a false "Campus Rape" lynch-mob that suspended the fraternity, vandalized their FratHouse, started marches against them (and all men, especially fraternities), and impugned the character of many innocents: who sued and won. A few piled on (HuffPo), but a few other outlets were mixed or skeptical, and later broke stories putting her version of events in doubt. Rolling Stone apologized (5 months later) and retracted the story in its entirety on April 5, 2015, long after the harm had been done. They were sued, and settled

Some facts that show Rolling Stone was incompetent in their journalistic efforts:

Charlottesville Police officials told UVA that an investigation had failed to find any evidence confirming the events in the Rolling Stone article.
UVA President Teresa Sullivan acknowledged that the story was discredited.
At the request of Rolling Stone agreed to audit the editorial processes that culminated in the article being published.
Erik Wemple of The Washington Post pronounced the story "a complete crock".
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Grueskin called the story "a mess—thinly sourced, full of erroneous assumptions, and plagued by gaping holes in the reporting". # The Columbia Journalism Review called the story "this year's media-fail sweepstakes"
The Poynter Institute named it as the "Error of the Year" in journalism.

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Fake News
While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well by Sharyl Attkisson.

Fake Rape
A leftist trope is that no Democrat female would lie about rape, but Republican ones can be ignored. Facts say otherwise.

Fake Hate
There is real hate in America, but not enough to keep leftism fed, so the left invents Fake Hate to fill the gap.

Huffington Post
A mockery of new journalism based on being wrong, but having enough trollish followers that it doesn't matter.

NewsGuard
Fake FactChecker that offer red/green light on whole institutions (based on politics), instead of individual articles.

RollingStone
American monthly magazine that was founding in the late 60's San Francisco, and focused on music and pop-culture.

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