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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?

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As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h

I can’t imagine any off the record remarks were removed from the audio recording before it was shared—including before it was potentially uploaded into an AI service.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 9h

As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

I'm the token expert voice saying that inconsistencies in victim's narratives are common in an otherwise brutally bad piece of journalism full of tropes about how not to report on sexual assault.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 16h

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods (and mind you, John Georges is a first-generation Greek immigrant who still has a home in Mykonos) bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 16h

The kicker is *chef's kiss*

“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Women and teen girls are afraid to run outside at night. They are taught to walk with keys in between their fingers and carry pepper spray or alarms. They can't just assume a man will want to be a friend or a mentor. They can't wear short skirts. They can't drink too much. And they can't be angry.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Women and girls get harassed and assaulted everywhere. Many women and girls are constantly taught any mistreatment is their fault. Many women are taught not to expect accountability, talking to police can deter victims, and rape kits can go untested for years: www.endthebacklog.org#explore-the-...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Women have to go out into the world and be around other people. There is no clear way for women to do all the right things and avoid harassment or assault. It doesn't matter if they wore different clothes or avoided alcohol. It happens with intimate partners, family members, teachers, and friends.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see people victim-blame and try to logic-out the Cornell 7 rape case. "Why would she go into the frat house? Why would she drink?" etc. It's easier than thinking about how many men have done similar things to women, and whether men *they personally know* have harassed or assaulted women.

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 19h

A woman existing (in public or private) is not an invitation to assault her, period. Ion care if she walked in there naked or in a nun's habit, that has no weight on where she ought to be assaulted. Bc when you ask those questions, you are saying ppl who do those things ought to be assaulted.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17h

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 17h

isn't this the successor organization to the national center for trans equality (ncte), which was rocked with allegations of racism by the management?

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 18h

"vote blue no matter who" crowd suspiciously silent, maybe they've realized it's a bad slogan and a weak argument no? they're still yelling at trans people about it? huh. weird. almost like there must be in-groups who may act according to their consciences alongside out-groups who may not

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 18h

surely all the centrists and institutionalist, establishment dems will be just as mad with these "uncommitted" voters as they were with the ones protesting the genocide of their family members two years ago surely this will be the case

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...

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Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough

The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 30/09/2026

if your articles are being shared positively by Jesse Singal, you're probably not actually doing the work in support of trans people as much as you think you are! (this is about the new The Needle hit piece about Erin Reed)

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rita hatesville @ritatreats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the needle news and their hit pieces on erin reed are now being shared by jesse singal, whos tying it to "misinformation on youth gender medicine" connect the dots

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rita hatesville @ritatreats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

one of the accusations being "Over a three year span, her writing went from being at grade level for a high school junior to being as difficult to read as an academic paper", which makes it AI personally, i would not be saying "it got too hard for me to read" when youre uploading articles like this

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rita hatesville @ritatreats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

theneedlenews staff also have a history of stalking and keeping an eye on their critics, something i can attest to. keep this in mind with any criticism they have of other trans people

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rita hatesville @ritatreats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

theneedlenews recently had eight errors retracted from their reporting written by artemis and jane, who responded by deflecting with 3 hit piece posts on another trans journalist within the span of an hour a trustworthy institution doesnt fucking do that when their false reporting is noticed

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote a thread earlier today (before even reading this story, actually) about how commonly the “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story are actually procedural distortions made by people in positions of power who are invested in disbelieving her:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. And while we're on the subject, you wanna talk about "changing stories," let's talk about DA offices and cops in general, eh? Imagine what reporting would look like if the press treated known liars with the same level of skepticism and scrutiny that they treat victims.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

James Burke with one of the greatest pieces if timing in Television history as he turns, points, and Voyager 2 takes off from Cape Canaveral in August 1977.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the baseline argument is young men are just unevolved gorillas, which is what the defense of those men boils down to, why aren't more men offended at being likened to animals. You're cool with that? You're SELF LABELING with that? Okay. Why are unevolved gorillas in charge and not in zoos.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You don't get to claim to be the superior gender if you're proudly calling yourself a fucking animal.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

new dune popcorn bucket just dropped and it's g spot friendly

i dont know how to describe this except its a dune poster and it is a phallic thing that looks like a vibrator

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/10/2026

Real fuckin minefield for sexual assault survivors lately huh.

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[wulu] @nosoywulu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tw violación. una de las cosas más fascinantes del patriarcado es que sus negacionistas mas acérrimos son los que más creen en él. te dicen sin pestañear que hay situaciones o sitios en los que se sabe que todos los hombres violan pero si lo dices tú es una generalización injusta.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 01/10/2026

It's so funny that theres a cadre of supposed democrats who have spent multiple years smearing both leftists and trans women on this website and who always seem to be utilizing the exact same lines of attack that the GOP uses.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 01/10/2026

so many guys trying to defend the seven cornell rapists by arguing that women should know better than to go to a frat house because they've got reputations i mean, it's still not her fault but thanks for admitting that you also think frat houses are rape factories

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

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emma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 01/10/2026

Aaron posted a list of messages from users he blocked and hmmmmm it seems like "enjoy the camps" is only okay when it's against trannies

a bunch of messages with the middle highlighted one being "hope you enjoy being tortured to death in concentration camps!"

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Lydz II @lydzmrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saying you can threaten trans people with camps? That’s fine. Telling the hard of trust and safety that there’s been an uptick in this behavior and telling him he’s to blame? Verboten, you’re suspended. Fuck this platform.

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For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase
"Trans rights or Trans camps. You chose the camps and you're blaming Dems" followed by profanity.
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Are they threatening trans users directly?
No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy.
Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. le send trans folks to concentration camps.
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> "You've caused an uptick in people telling us to enjoy the camps you fucking piece of shit. Go fuck yourself @aaron.bsky.team"

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

it is deeply funny (read: extremely not funny) how the spreadsheet that aaron posted about how hard it is to be the head of trust & safety includes multiple (!) examples of him being told to "enjoy the camps" and related expressions. Almost Like That Sentiment Is Always Bad, Aaron.

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