Business Insider’s top executive and parent company said Sunday they were satisfied with the fairness and accuracy of stories that made plagiarism accusations against a former MIT professor who is married to a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay.

Alternative Title: Billionaire hypocrite Bill Ackman embarrassed after he fails to do satisfactory due diligence before opening his big mouth, again

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    From the article:

    Business Insider would not say who conducted the review of its work.

    This article is reporting on a what is basically a press statement by another news outlet, though given the story, that top-line response is the real story. No one really cares what’s in the report, the facts of the original reporting aren’t in question, the real story is simply that they rejected the billionaire’s attempt to pressure them to quash it and/or punish the writers.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Okay, well that’s actually quite a simple summary, and would’ve fit a headline quite nicely, I appreciate it. I have no idea why this article is so infuriatingly obtuse.