You can’t make this up. It’s been well over 24 hours since that Jezebel story on Scott Walker and campus rape reporting got debunked and retracted, yet the Huffington Post tweeted this incredibly misleading headline out at 3:00 p.m. today:
This looks like the same tweet they sent out on February 27, the day of the original Jezebel story:
And on February 28 from the @HuffPostPol account:
Unbelievable. How is this even a story at this point that merits more attention, other than a public shaming of Jezebel for issuing it in the first place?
https://twitter.com/VinoMutt/status/572127957734461440
Yes they do.
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