Rolling Stone magazine’s credibility took another blow Wednesday as the Washington Post continued to hammer away at the pop magazine’s now-disavowed exposé on campus sexual assault at the University of Virginia.
The dubious Nov. 19 Rolling Stone profile, a 9,000-word article titled “A Rape on Campus,” alleged that a student, “Jackie,” had been brutally gang-raped in 2012 by five men at a fraternity party, that she told three friends of the attack immediately after it happened and that the school and her friends worked to cover up the incident.
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