From Slate on December 4, 2016: From Slate on December 14, 2016:

Just before the election, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner cost himself $3 million in a seemingly easy-to-win libel suit by a U. of Virginia administrator by de-retracting much of Sabrina Rubin Erdely's notorious hate hoax article "A Rape on Campus." The day after the election, Obama welcomed Wenner to the Oval Office for an interview... Read More

Commenter Cwhatfuture opines:

From USA Today: Why aren't hate hoaxes prosecutable as hate crimes? They use fraud to stir up racial hatred. Granted, these frauds are designed to engender hatred of white people, so I guess that's okay. Anyway, the real problem with hate hoaxes is that they temporarily hurt the feelings of the Official Victim Groups:

From Yahoo News: Whole Foods is using security footage to sue a gay pastor for an unlikely reason Business Insider By Hayley Peterson Whole Foods is suing a [black gay] pastor who claimed that the grocery chain sold him a cake decorated with a homophobic slur. Jordan Brown, an openly gay pastor at Austin’s Church... Read More

Our ingenue Democratic frontrunner appears unaware of the concept of the campus hate hoax, naively tweeting out the latest lies. From the New York Times: Racism Charges in Bus Incident, and Their Unraveling, Upset University at Albany By VIVIAN YEE MARCH 1, 2016 ALBANY — The allegation set social media ablaze, sowing shock and outrage... Read More

Last week's Racist Hate Crime Crisis of the Century -- some of the tape black protestors put over the Harvard Law School seal was also found over portraits of black professors -- always sounded like an exceptionally lazy hoax. Couldn't the black activists have bothered to bring a second, different roll of tape for the... Read More

Michelle Malkin is a graduate of Oberlin: Judging from their tweets, it sound like staffwriter Lesley Arfin brings "Girls" much of its needed edge. But what the AP public relations team for Dunham