Rolling Stone goes after Majors
https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1674607475369078784
shareThe same Rolling Stone that went after the Duke lacrosse team?
I have no opinion on Jonathan Majors, I'm just not ready to jump on the Rolling Stone thing.
Duke lacrosse? Now there's a story I haven't heard in a long time. I don't remember Rolling Stone spearheading the investigation of that case. As I recall it was a corrupt D.A., D.A. Mike Nifong, who was responsible for that mess and ended up disbarred and jailed because of it. I'm sure Rolling Stone covered the story and believed the charges initially, but that was because the fucking D.A. had everyone convinced it was true.
shareThere were a lot of news outlets guilty of misreporting on the whole debacle, but Rolling Stone specifically was found guilty for libel with actual malice.
Rolling Stone magazine and a journalist have been found guilty of defamation over a false article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia.share
The $7.5m (£6m) lawsuit was brought by Nicole Eramo, an associate dean from the university, who said the article had cast her as the "chief villain".
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The 10-member federal jury in Charlottesville found that Erdely was responsible for libel with actual malice.
They also found the magazine and its publisher responsible for defaming Ms Eramo.
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A report from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, commissioned by Rolling Stone, found flaws at every level of the magazine's editing process.
It described the article as "a story of journalistic failure".