with multi-billion dollar corporate owners pay off our govt, laws (Section 230) are written to shield them from any liability...like having no legal/financial responsibility for allowing a 3rd-party blogger to publish a false rape accusation with no editorial oversight...
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others. I chose not to sue the blog author (he has no money & frankly I wanted 2 move on w/ rebuilding my career)-but I hope my story shows that "FAKE NEWS" is not only a right-wing Trumpian threat. It is also a daily threat from irresponsible, profit-obsessed clickbait outlets
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I didn't write this for pity---I wrote it bc to this day I experience pain at seeing the phrase sexual assault attached to my name on the Internet. At the time of the accusation, I was diplomatic and did not state the obvious bc we were living in the early days of
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Where a man was basically declared guilty by tweet damn the facts. But definitively--the accusation made against me was 100% false and the woman made it up (with quite a lot of goating from the HuffPo author and others in a FB chat). Despite this, I support the
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and survivors bc there are A LOT of bad men in the world and workplace and MANY of those accused are guilty of horrific acts of violence and abuse. In my case, it simply was not true but, unfortunately, I was an early example of a herd-mentality rush to judgment. In conclusion...
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I hope people who spend most of their days/lives on the Internet learn to more carefully/closely vet information and accusations of ANY kind--and not merely draw conclusions based on tribalism or ideology or whatever the hot Twitter hashtag of the moment is.
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Much love brother.
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I figured you would yell at me for going public with this...but it's burned inside for 3 years and I had to get it out!
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