Business Insider’s top executive and parent company said Sunday they were satisfied with the fairness and accuracy of stories that made plagiarism accusations against a former MIT professor who is married to a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay.

Alternative Title: Billionaire hypocrite Bill Ackman embarrassed after he fails to do satisfactory due diligence before opening his big mouth, again

  • vintageballs@feddit.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    PSA: Business insider belongs to Axel Springer, the German pendant to Murdoch. Take everything you read from any of their publications with a 1MT brick of salt.

    • ZaktorEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      This is definitely not in service of Murdoch-aligned politics. BI highlighted a rightwing billionaire’s hypocrisy and after the billionaire complained to his fellow rich people at AS they put out a statement saying “our reporting is good and we won’t be quashing it”.