16 things we learned from the review of the Rolling Stone gang-rape story

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Rolling Stone has published the Columbia Journalism Review’s autopsy of the magazine’s now officially retracted article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.

In the original story, a woman named “Jackie” claimed she had been gang raped as part of a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity initiation. Her story quickly fell apart as the friends she talked to after the alleged incident disputed her account, and her primary attacker turned out to be a fictitious person.

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