Business Insider story on Harvard antagonist's wife draws owner's scrutiny

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https://wapo.st/3vyjdRI

Neither Ackman nor Oxman, whose companies didn’t respond to requests for comment, have pointed to any factual errors in the articles.

“While the facts of the reports have not been disputed, over the past few days questions have been raised about the motivation and the process leading up to the reporting — questions that we take very seriously,”

In a Sunday afternoon email to employees that was reviewed by The Washington Post, Business Insider global editor in chief Nicholas Carlson appeared to push back on the idea that the stories needed a review. Carlson wrote that he would “welcome” the review but argued for the news value of the stories given Oxman’s position as what he called a “well-known academic” and start-up founder.

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1. So this toxic takedown begins deep in the weeds of venture capital if not

outright libertarianism. Why am I not surprised?

[spooky3]

2. So ackman and others implement a plan to destroy the career of the first black female

President of Harvard, purportedly because she didn’t say precisely what they wanted her to say about Israel, have online stooges denigrate her “weak” publication record (it’s not weak), then find minor citation errors in some of her works. Death threats follow, and she steps down. When Bus Insider finds evidence that Ackman’s wife has done the same things or worse re “plagiarism” Ackman vows to retaliate. Now the owner of BI is responding to this egregious bullying tactic but not by defending his employees? Ugly.