Last month, Rolling Stone updated a previous story with an editor’s note apologizing for the quality of its reporting about an alleged gang-rape occurring at the University of Virginia.
A police investigation “has not revealed any substantive basis to confirm” the allegation and the fraternity at the center of the controversy has been reinstated:
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/554662568263155714
What say you now, Rolling Stone?
https://twitter.com/JadedByPolitics/status/554666264032215041
https://twitter.com/michaelgoesfar/status/554686684080930816
The troubles for the university might not be over.
@BecketAdams @instapundit @RollingStone time to file that civil suit!
— Ever (@ever_plus) January 12, 2015
@BecketAdams @instapundit UVA might want to go ahead and try to settle those fraternity lawsuits.
— Erik Soderstrom (@soderstrom) January 12, 2015
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