I am *not* even close to the only one saying this.pic.twitter.com/N8cmBRWdgz
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I want to share some longer remarks on the so-called Silicon Valley elite “sex party” that’s making the rounds. (Be warned: the truth is boring.)pic.twitter.com/T4BrLTeFof
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Here’s a problem: Most of us were happy to let this go as long as nobody was naming names. People want to think the tech elite are sex partiers? Fine. Whatever. It’s not the first time the media has overlooked basic due diligence for something that would certainly grab eyeballs.
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But no, it’s not fine. An incentive structure that causes widely-read and broadly trusted publications to run with fabrications is NOT FINE. Something is very, very broken here. What happened to journalism?
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@FortuneMagazine headline. What are you doing, Fortune? This is NOT okay.pic.twitter.com/1lTl7Tqdtf
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This is *terrible* for women. I was the victim of several attempted assaults at parties in college. There are *real* events where women are preyed upon. They shouldn’t be given the back seat *to falsehoods* whenever the people who enabled them aren’t famous or wealthy.
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All of these big names in tech who stayed at this party through the night KNOW that the media is grossly mischaracterizing it. Think about how this must affect the way they look at other media reports of abuse. Fellow women: the costs of these profitable lies are falling on US.
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@emilychangtv nice job fact-checking, EmilyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The thing I don't like about this line of defense is that it kind of implies that nothing was wrong *because* there was no sex. But, so what if there had been?
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It's not a defense. It's a warning about who's telling outrageous lies, and what else you shouldn't trust them about.
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It's a pretty niche kink, I'll give you that.
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