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Rolling Stone retracts story about rural hospitals overrun with Ivermetctin ODs because it was completely made up (twitter.com)
posted 4 years ago by SparkMandrill83 4 years ago by SparkMandrill83 +135 / -0
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– Ahaus667 50 points 4 years ago +50 / -0

Rolling Stones is the bastion of retractions once anyone with a brain goes wait a second. Remember the gang rape college story that almost shut down a fraternity until someone bothered asking the accused?

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– Devidose 28 points 4 years ago +28 / -0

Remember to include what happened after. That woman murdered someone.

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– RoulerBleu 16 points 4 years ago +16 / -0

You're thinking of Crystal Mangum, the liar who falsely accused the Duke Lacrosse team members of gang rape. The false accuser got away without consequences. She murdered a boyfriend later.

The UVA rape hoax story published by the Rolling Stone was crafted by "journalist" Sabrina Erdely and false accuser "Jackie" ( pseudonym ).

"Jackie" got away wuthout consequences, but the Rolling Stone had to pay compensation to some of the people whose lives were crushed by rabid feminists crowds harassing them.

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– Sc0paf 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0

I was just talking to someone about this the other day. That "worst part" is definitely the intention.

I have a friend who works for a branch of children and youth services, and people are constantly calling in bullshit petty calls on their neighbors just to try to get them in trouble for something.

Example: "their fucking dog keeps barking... I'm gonna call cys and say their kids don't have fuckin shoes."

Or worse, you get, you get a jilted spouse, hot about the estrangement, calling in to say mommy's new boyfriend is diddling the kids, couching the children to spread egregious lies.

Its smaller scale instances of the same bullshit. Because they know that in public perception, that person isn't going to be "the guy who was wrongfully accused of child abuse," they're going to be "the guy who got away with diddling kids."

You are absolutely right on this one. Irreparable reputational damages that there are absolutely zero consequences for.

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... continue reading thread?
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– bangbus 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Not Duke. Rolling Stone was involved in publishing one about a UVA frat. Turns out it was completely false. Duke was a huge red pill for me.

If I hit the lottery I want to give a college money to endow a chair in media communications and condition it on me be allowed to teach two classes a semester on fake news.

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– yeldarb1983 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

how about fucking mattress girl?

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