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Rolling Stone magazine, writer ordered to pay US$3m

They are found liable for defamation in case centred on faulty reporting, failure to apply editing fail-safes

Published Tue, Nov 8, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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Charlottesville, Virginia

A FEDERAL jury on Monday ordered Rolling Stone and one of its writers to pay US$3 million in damages to a University of Virginia administrator over a discredited article two years ago about a supposed gang rape at the university.

The jury in Charlottesville, Virginia, had already decided last Friday, after a tw…

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