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posted by martyb on Sunday November 06 2016, @04:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-believe-everything-you-read dept.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37879151

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.

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".

The 2014 article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, included the rape claim of an unidentified female student.

The magazine retracted the article in April 2015, citing inconsistencies.

[...] An investigation by the Charlottesville Police Department had found no evidence that "Jackie" had been gang raped.

[...] The amount [Nicole Eramo] is due in damages will be determined at a later date.

The 10-member federal jury in Charlottesville found that Erdely, the journalist, was responsible for libel with actual malice.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Monday November 07 2016, @02:55AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday November 07 2016, @02:55AM (#423372) Journal

    Jackie is a total hoaxer:

    Of course, Jackie's lie would have been exposed had Erdely or Rolling Stone's editors done one of two things: press her for the real name of her attacker, or verify that friends Ryan Duffin, Alex Stone, and Kathryn Hendley had actually said the things attributed to them by Jackie. Indeed, Ryan and Alex could have clued Erdely in to Jackie's weird catfishing scheme, and Kathryn could have related an illustrative anecdote: Jackie faking a terminal illness and spread a false rumor that Kathryn had contracted syphilis.

    http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/04/nicole-eramo-wins-rolling-stone-committe [reason.com]

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