Which is not to say that the Times shouldn’t report on what it gets, just that it is worth thinking about who benefits from focusing attention on the state of mind of a teenager, versus the practices of a major institution
Julia Carrie Wong
@joolia.bsky.social
67K followers 941 following 8.1K posts
senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
![If we remove all the primary citations and focus on secondary, independent coverage, what kind of article are we left with? A permanent stub that says "Julia Carrie Wong is a female journalist who has written a few articles about Facebook and Sophie Zhang, and who has also been harassed online due to some of her tweets and writing." Not something that any encyclopedia reader or editor would, or should, be proud of, in my opinion. Note also that the routine mention in Talking Biz News is a self-published source. -
-Animalparty! (talk) 22:41, 9 September 2026 (UTC) [reply]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yde3jzbwuuxqmp2ibtrbo3e/bafkreigkv3lt77f5bdv4yoymlpz5fj6q4dgvtgiuom3voc54sz4yykrc74)
![🚨NEW: Drop Site journalist Ryan Grim has authenticated behind-the-scenes messages showing Politico omitted an important detail from its reporting on how the night began that led to the rape allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
Before publication, a Politico reporter told the Platner campaign that Jenny Racicot, on the night in question, had been “texting [Platner] about needing her glute massaged.” The reporter added, “That detail didn’t make our story.”
Racicot told Jake Tapper during her CNN interview that Platner had “taken something that I said as an invitation” before she subsequently texted him not to come over. Tapper did not follow up to ask what the content of the message was, and did not respond to a request for comment from Drop Site. Politico, in a statement to Drop Site, did not dispute that the outlet was aware of the “glute masssage” text, and said that it would update its reporting if further information arose.
According to a spokesperson: “This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews and reflects our editorial standards. In interviews with us and in accounts she gave to other outlets, Jenny Racicot said that she told Graham Platner not to come to her home and that he nevertheless showed up there uninvited. POLITICO gave Platner and his campaign ample opportunity to respond to our reporting and to provide any information or documentation they believed contradicted it. If presented with information that materially challenges our reporting, we will report it.”
Platner is expected to drop out today.
🎥
@ryangrim
|
@esaagar
via Breaking Points](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yde3jzbwuuxqmp2ibtrbo3e/bafkreialdw5udib5oeuogorezqp6r4jp25jkhblomdpu6ic6rylarvkvxq)
!["I confronted him both during and after [sex] because he knew that I was not on birth control and how dangerous that was,
" she told The Post
in one interview. In another, she said: "He would act like cute about it, like 'Oh sneaky
me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yde3jzbwuuxqmp2ibtrbo3e/bafkreigvxgdspb3fhubgjfcervtbwk5bkvp7xv4fwkx6a26qoxp7qhszrm)
