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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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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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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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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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And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.

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After I posted this thread, I got an email from an editor indicating the story had been updated. They removed my quote and added new text about the developments in the case. I don't know if they ever would have done that without pressure, but it's something.

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The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.

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Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.

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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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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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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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JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Mamdani setting off the biggest shitheads in the world by saying antisemitism is bad just shows that a bunch of supposedly lefty people put Jew hating over any leftist policy.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 10h

He's welcome to try, David Simon is about the last media creator who the alt-left can try shaming on any issue, let alone this. He's actually read on Jewish history, unlike the people who discovered the Bund yesterday.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 10h

"I'm not doing it for engagement, I'm just mad someone who disagrees with me has followers"

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 14h

This type of mask-on/mask-off act is also what Hasan Piker does on his stream vs. on Pod Save America.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 7h

But Liz Cheney laying her sword at Harris' feet was somehow a bridge too far.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It explains why it’s so hard to even have a discussion on the issue. In musical terms, one side is classical, the other is free jazz. There is virtually no common denominator grounding a discourse other than the subject of the discourse itself.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Zionist becomes an epithet. Genocide becomes an accusation without a legal standard. Their meanings are fluid, floating freely from context to context. There are no facts. There is no neutral position, nor is there neutral language. And debate becomes impossible.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The unfortunate result is that these words have become unmoored their meanings. So when we (Jews/Israelis/Zionists) try to explain why they’re wrong about crucial foundational concepts, it falls on deaf ears.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where things get murky is in the meaning of those words. Antizionists are less concerned with the objective meaning of words than they are about the power contained within them. Thus they can bandy about the word genocide as shorthand for whatever they want to say about Israel, Zionists or Jews.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For antizionists, it’s important that you use the words and say the slogans. They will welcome or ostracize you based on whether or not you recite their prescribed words.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Been thinking about the use of words by the Palestine movement/antizionists. All of us agree that words are important, but how we use those words is fundamentally different.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 17h

Also "oh it's just on Twitter" nope! Nuh uh! It's everywhere! But once again, you've made yet more excuses as for why you don't need to stand up and admit there's a problem and then *fight back against it!*

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See, like, we have examples of *blatant* antisemitism and the best any of the defenders on the left can do is shrug their shoulders and go "eh, well, not much I can do about *that* one, seems pretty understandable". This is an indictment of the left, tbh.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 17h

I'm so fucking tired of people claiming "the antisemitism on the left is just coming from random anonymous nobodies online, it's not Real People in Real Life". It *is* Real People in Real Life, it's *well-known people*, and it's *everywhere* now. Either stand up to it or let the left be infected.

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Professor Power @powerofacademe.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that we are here trying to debunk what should be obvious ahistorical, irrational gobbledegook of figural Judaism is a symptom of how far along into epistemic collapse we already are.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 15h

There is no way The New Yorker would have transcribed, without comment, the off-topic opinion of an Israeli author that Palestinians are just separatist Jordanians or whatever

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 15h

Now for a less diplomatic point: it is high time to stop humoring the bigoted beliefs of groups about other groups (because that is exactly what is going on here, "Jews are an artificially united construct" is not a randomly acquired bit of crankery, it is the hallmark of Middle Eastern antisemitism

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 14h

"hello fellow white man, please join my high trust society!" "what's that pit of corpses burning over there? they're all white. i thought the whole point was cohesion...?" "those are race traitors." "what constitutes race traitoring?" "oh i know it when i see it. or you have something i want..."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 8h

I mean I don't know how to explain to people that ideological antisemitism is using Palestine as an excuse and that it is in fact about hatred of Jews, other than repeating it a lot

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, I think calling 'terror attack' early was pretty justified on this one

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 14h

Here's something you neoliberal elites will NEVER understand: Kamala scolded some protestors one time, so this is really all her fault.

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Samuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 14h

The “modern Holocaust of our time” has lasted nearly the length of the actual Holocaust, by formal reckonings at least, and has resulted in one-one-hundredth the number of people killed. That’s not to say that genocide is defined by casualty numbers, because it isn’t. But the rhetorical invocation

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But nope, for a bunch of supposed allies, when their da mayor sends his goons in the NYPD out to arrest anti genocide protestors at the UN, they need to exert their energy to defend that lying scumbag. They distract from the modern holocaust of our times that is ongoing to discuss anti semitism. 3/4
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 15h

they are pathetically desperate to have gotten to the singularity, but of course, if they had, they wouldn't need the Pope or anyone else to validate it, it would be self evident

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This fact alone sends people who use genocide as a rhetorical cudgel into an absolute *tailspin*. bsky.app/profile/auda...

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I don't even think most of them realize they're acting as a part of this decades-long counter-response, but campism and anti-American tendencies have been an underpinning of edgelord online leftism for a *long* time. And it feels *very* good to have an Unassailable Cudgel.

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